Swiss Timeline: Difference between revisions

'''1291''' Foundation of the Swiss Confederation.

'''1484-1531''' Swiss Reformation began in Zurich.

'''Early 1500’s''' First church records begin.

'''1535''' Anabaptist and Mennonite movements after 1535 began in the rural areas.

'''1536''' Jean Calvin came to Geneva and reformation began there.

'''1545-1563''' Catholic Counter Reformation

'''1618-1648''' 30 Years’ War, Swiss confederacy remains peaceful

'''1656, 1712''' Civil Wars caused by religious strife

'''1803-1815''' Civil War brings Helvetic Republic to an end and Napoleon confirms Switzerland’s borders and its perpetual neutrality.

'''1815-1830''' Loose confederacy reestablished with 22 cantons.

'''1817''' Emigration of 3000 Swiss people for North and South America.

'''1838''' Church records have standardized columnar entries.

'''1874''' Final point of struggle between church and state on basic rules of society. Marriages, birth and death certificates are controlled by state authorities instead of the church. The Jesuit order is banned from Switzerland until 1973.

'''1882-83''' 13,500 Swiss emigrate to US, Argentina, Canada and Brasil.'''1914-1918 World War I, Swiss neutrality.'''1918-1933 Economic crisis and inner conflicts.

'''1918''' Women allowed to vote.

'''1933-1939''' Hitler seen as a danger to Swiss independence.

'''1939-1945''' World War II, Swiss neutrality.

'''1979''' Canton Jura separates from Canton Bern.