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The Prince and Princess of Wales (then known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) in Ottawa, Canada during their first joint royal tour outside the United Kingdom from 30 June to 8 July 2011. This is a list of official overseas visits and Commonwealth tours made by the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Independence from the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand on 31 January 1968. Now an independent monarchy outside the Commonwealth. Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan on 26 March 1971. Now an independent monarchy outside the Commonwealth. Dominion of Sierra Leone declared in 1961.
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.
2 October. Lucerne City (only) L'Escalade. 12 December. GE (only) 1. The days around Carnival are (with the exception of very few individual municipalities) not public holidays. However, due to widely observed celebrations in the cantons mentioned, there are usually restrictions: for example, businesses might already close at noon or not open ...
2 visits. 1 visit. Presentation of a book of the Six Decades of H.M. The Queen's Commonwealth and State Visits, 18 December 2012. Queen Elizabeth II undertook a number of state and official visits over her 70-year reign (1952 to 2022), [ 1] as well as trips throughout the Commonwealth, making her the most widely travelled head of state in history.
The 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 ...
Tourism began in Switzerland with British mountaineers climbing the main peaks of the Bernese Alps in the early 19th century. The Alpine Club in London was founded in 1857. Reconvalescence in the Alpine, in particular from tuberculosis, was another important branch of tourism in the 19th and early 20th centuries: for example in Davos, Graubünden.
This is a list of islands of Switzerland. Switzerland is a landlocked country, hence all Swiss islands are located in lakes or rivers. This list also includes islands in artificial lakes (*). In these cases, the water levels may drop by a few metres at some periods of the year, thereby turning some islands into peninsulas.