Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Swiss National Day (German: Schweizer Bundesfeiertag; French: Fête nationale suisse; Italian: Festa nazionale svizzera; Romansh: Festa naziunala svizra) is the national holiday of Switzerland, set on 1 August. Although the founding of the Swiss Confederacy was first celebrated on this date in 1891 and annually since 1899, it has only been an ...
1 March - Republic Day; 19 March - Saint Joseph's Day; 3 April - Näfels Ride; 18 April - Good Friday; 21 April - Easter Monday; 1 May - International Workers' Day; 29 May - Ascension Day; 9 June - Whit Monday; 19 June - Corpus Christi; 29 June - Saints Peter and Paul; 1 August - Swiss National Day; 15 August - Assumption Day; 11 September ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
2 January - Berchtoldstag Day; 6 January - Epiphany; 1 March - Republic Day; 19 March - Saint Joseph's Day; 29 March - Good Friday; 1 April - Easter Monday; 4 April - Näfels Ride; 1 May - International Workers' Day; 9 May - Ascension Day; 20 May - Whit Monday; 30 May - Corpus Christi; 29 June - Saints Peter and Paul; 1 August - Swiss National Day
In 1858, the Swiss Colonization Society, a group of Swiss and German immigrants to the United States, founded its first (and only) planned city on the banks of the Ohio River in Perry County, Indiana. The town was originally dubbed Helvetia, but was quickly changed to Tell City to honor the legendary Swiss hero. The city became known for its ...
Trish Parker, a healthy 90-year-old, went with her sons to Switzerland, where she chose to die by assisted suicide rather than risk a lingering end. Prolific Ohio artist wanted to leave life on ...
This list contains all cultural property of national significance (class A) in the canton of Geneva from the 2009 Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance. It is sorted by municipality and contains 86 individual buildings, 46 collections and 10 archaeological finds.
The Charter documents the Eternal Alliance of the League of the Three Forest Cantons (German: Ewiger Bund der Drei Waldstätten), the union of three cantons in what is now central Switzerland. It is dated to early August 1291, which in the 20th century inspired the date of Swiss National Day, 1 August.