Timeline of Swiss history

This is a timeline of Swiss history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Switzerland and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Switzerland.

Prior to 19th century

Year	Date	Event
1307		"Swiss independence declared."[1]

19th century

Year	Date	Event
1832		Confederate Schützenverein founded.[2]
1843		Schweizerisches Gesangsfest (singing festival) begins.
1847		Sonderbund War, a civil war that pitted Catholic against Protestant cantons
1848	September 12	Switzerland begins to become a federal state.
1874		The Swiss Federal Constitution was extensively amended.[3]
1877	June	Flooding.[3]

20th century

Year	Date	Event
1920		Switzerland joins the League of Nations.[4]
1958		The Swiss population vote in favour of having a nuclear bomb. However, in 1968, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is seen as an alternative, therefore Switzerland does not build nuclear weapons.
1963		Switzerland joins the Council of Europe (not to be confused with the European Union).
1971		Women are given the right to vote.
1979		French-speaking Canton of Jura secedes from mostly German-speaking Canton of Bern.[5]

21st century

Year	Date	Event
2002		Switzerland was ratified as a member of the United Nations.
2009		Swiss minaret referendum, 2009 held.

See also

• List of years in Switzerland

Cities in Switzerland

• Timeline of Basel
• Timeline of Bern
• Timeline of Geneva
• Timeline of Zürich

References

1. Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Switzerland", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co. – via HathiTrust
2. Oliver Zimmer (10 July 2003). A Contested Nation: History, Memory and Nationalism in Switzerland, 1761-1891. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81919-0.
3. George Henry Townsend (1877), "Switzerland", Manual of Dates (5th ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
4. Leo Schelbert (2014). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (2nd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4422-3352-2.
5. "Switzerland Profile: Timeline", BBC News, retrieved September 2015 Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

Further reading

• T.C. Grattan (1832). "Chronological Table of Subjects in the History of Switzerland". In Dionysius Lardner. History of Switzerland. Cabinet of History. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea.
• Thomas Bartlett (1841). "Switzerland". New Tablet of Memory; or, Chronicle of Remarkable Events. London: Thomas Kelly.
• William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Switzerland". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg.
• B.B. Woodward; William L.R. Cates (1872). "Switzerland". Encyclopaedia of Chronology. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
• Henry Smith Williams, ed. (1908). "Chronological Summary of the History of Switzerland". Switzerland, Russia. Historians' History of the World. 17. London: Hooper & Jackson.
• "Switzerland". Political Chronology of Europe. Europa Publications. 2003. pp. 248+. ISBN 978-1-135-35687-3.