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Between the Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War II and the Rewriting of History, (2013) ISBN 0-89526-238-X excerpt and text search; Golson, Eric Bernard, The Economics of Neutrality: Spain, Sweden and Switzerland in the Second World War (2011) PhD thesis, LSE, 500pp. full text; Kreis, Georg.
Wars and conflicts involving Switzerland since the creation of the Old Swiss Confederacy include: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
In total, trade between Germany and Switzerland contributed about 0.5% to the German war effort but did not significantly lengthen the war. [29] Over the course of the war, Switzerland interned 300,000 refugees. [30] 104,000 of these were foreign troops interned according to the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers outlined in the Hague ...
The 1918 general strike was the most significant domestic crisis in Switzerland since the Sonderbund War of 1847 and the formation of the Swiss federal state in 1848. [ 20 ] In early 1919, twenty-one leaders were put on trial for incitement to mutiny.
Year Date Event 1843: June: The first Schweizerisches Gesangsfest, a singing festival, was held in Zürich.: 1847: 3 November: Sonderbund War: In the midst of a political crisis, troops from Uri, a member of the Sonderbund, a separate alliance of Catholic cantons of Switzerland, seized the Gotthard Pass between the northern and southern halves of the country.
The Swiss peasant war of 1653 (German: Schweizer Bauernkrieg) was a popular revolt in the Old Swiss Confederacy at the time of the Ancien Régime.A devaluation of Bernese money caused a tax revolt that spread from the Entlebuch valley in the Canton of Lucerne to the Emmental valley in the Canton of Bern and then to the cantons of Solothurn and Basel and also to the Aargau.
1848 - Bern becomes capital of Switzerland. [3] [7] 1850 Der Bund newspaper begins publication. Population: 29,670 in city; 407,765 in canton. [19] 1851 - Tiefenaubrücke (bridge) built. 1857 - Federal Palace of Switzerland [1] and Bärengraben (bear pit) built. 1858 Bern railway station opens. Musikschule Konservatorium Bern founded. [16]
The Toggenburg War, also known as the Second War of Villmergen [2] or the Swiss Civil War of 1712, [3] was a Swiss civil war during the Old Swiss Confederacy from 12 April to 11 August 1712. The Catholic "inner cantons" and the Imperial Abbey of Saint Gall fought the Protestant cantons of Bern and Zürich as well as the abbatial subjects of ...