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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 ...
Republic Day: 1 March NE (only) Näfels Ride: Usually the first Thursday in April GL (only) Sechseläuten: Usually the third Monday in April (half-day) Zürich City, Schlieren (only) Independence Day: 23 June JU (only) Peter and Paul: 29 June TI: LU, GR: Knabenschiessen: Second weekend in September (+ half Monday after) Zürich City (and ...
An independence day is an annual event commemorating the anniversary of a nation's independence or statehood, ... Swiss National Day: 1 August: 1291
The Congress of Vienna of 1814–15 fully re-established Swiss independence and the European powers agreed to recognize permanent Swiss neutrality. At this time, Valais , Neuchâtel , and Geneva also joined Switzerland as new cantons, thereby extending Swiss territory to its current boundaries.
The Swiss victory in the Swabian War against the Swabian League of Emperor Maximilian I in 1499 amounted to de facto independence within the Holy Roman Empire. [43] In 1501, Basel [ 44 ] and Schaffhausen joined the Old Swiss Confederacy.
The early history of Switzerland begins with the earliest settlements up to the beginning of Habsburg rule, which in 1291 gave rise to the independence movement in the central cantons of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden and the growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy during the Late Middle Ages.
According to Swiss folklore, she was the wife of Werner Stauffacher, the Landammann of the Canton of Schwyz and a founding father of the Old Swiss Confederacy. She was depicted in Friedrich Schiller's 1804 play William Tell as an advisor to her husband, advocating for Swiss independence from Habsburg rule.
A treaty of alliance from 1291 between the cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden, the Charter is one of a series of alliances from which the Old Swiss Confederacy emerged. In the 19th and 20th century, after the establishment of the Swiss federal state, the Charter became the central founding document of Switzerland in the popular imagination.