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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 ...
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.
The 26 cantons that make up Switzerland set their public holidays independently – with the exception of 1 August, [1] which is the only federal holiday. [2] Furthermore, holidays can change depending on employers, and some holidays are specific to only a certain town or village.
August 1 is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... Swiss National Day, commemorates Switzerland becoming a single unit in 1291.
Independence Day: 1 January: 1956 United Kingdom Egypt South Sudan: Independence Day: 9 July: 2011 Sudan Spain: San Sebastian Day or Tamborrada: 20 January: 1479 Castile Suriname: Independence Day: 25 November: 1975 Netherlands Switzerland: Swiss National Day: 1 August: 1291 Holy Roman Empire: Alliance against the Holy Roman Empire in 1291 ...
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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 - Jeûne genevois; 21 September - Lundi du Jeûne; 25 September - Saint Nicholas of Flüe Day; 1 November - All Saints' Day
In 2016, Switzerland had 1.0 hectares [82] of biocapacity per person within its territory, 40 per cent less than world average of 1.6. In contrast, in 2016, Swiss consumption required 4.6 hectares of biocapacity – their ecological footprint , 4.6 times as much as Swiss territory can support.