In 1415 Bern invaded lower Aargau with the help of Solothurn.

When revolutionaries overthrew the cantonal government in Bern, the French Army of the Alps invaded, ostensibly to support the Swiss Republicans.

They once had claims on the modern canton of Vaud, where they occupied the Château of Chillon in Switzerland, but their access to it was cut by Geneva during the Protestant Reformation, after which it was conquered by Bern.

When the canton of Vaud was conquered by Bern in 1536, Aubonne came under Bernese domination, but still belonged to the Count of Greyerz until 1553.

Lenzburg was conquered by Bern in 1415, along with the western part of current Aargau, though Bern did not take away its city rights.

Bern willingly conquered the western part of the Aargau.

The same year, Bern conquered the hitherto Savoyard Vaud and also instituted Protestantism there.

When Francesco II Sforza died in Milan in 1534, the duke's troops were bound by the French engagement there, and Bern promptly conquered the Vaud and, together with the Valais, also territories south of Lake Geneva in 1536.

After Bern conquered Vaud in 1536, Saubraz shared in the fate of Aubonne and 1701 it became a part of the Aubonne administrative district.

After the Habsburg dynasty had lost large parts of its original Swabian possessions south of the Rhine to the Swiss Confederacy at the 1386 Battle of Sempach, the remaining Fricktal was administered from the Oberamt Breisgau of Further Austria ( Vorderösterreich ) at Freiburg, while the adjacent Unteraargau region to the south was finally conquered by the Swiss at Bern in 1415.

Shortly thereafter in 1415, Bern and the rest of the Swiss Confederation used the ban as a pretext to invade Aargau.

Bern used the Aargau bailiwicks mostly as a source of grain for the rest of the city-state.

Zschokke retired from public life when the central government at Bern proposed to re-establish the federal system, but after the changes effected by Napoleon Bonaparte he entered the service of the canton of Aargau, with which he remained connected.

East of the canton of Bern lie the cantons of Uri, Nidwalden, Obwalden, Lucerne and Aargau.

The ensuing conflict with the Old Swiss Confederacy ( known as the Burgdorferkrieg or Kyburgerkrieg ) allowed Bern to move against the Habsburgs in Aargau.

While Bern was not involved at Sempach they used the Austrian weakness to march into the Oberland in 1386, followed by the Seeland ( the region south of the Jura Mountains containing the Morat ( Murten ), Neuchâtel and Bienne ( Biel ) lakes ) in 1388 and the Aargau in 1389.

To the west and south lies the canton of Bern, to the east is Aargau.

Bern, which had not participated in the Sempach war, took the opportunity and began its conquest of what would become the canton of Bern, sending military expeditions into the Jura, the Oberland, Emmental and Aargau.

After publishing a proclamation on October 26, Dufour appointed as division commanders: Peter Ludwig von Donatz ( Grisons ), Johannes Burckhardt and Eduard Ziegler ( Aargau ) from among the Conservatives and Louis Rilliet de Constant ( Vaud ), Dominik Gmür, Giacomo Luvini ( Ticino ) and Ochsenbein ( Bern ) from among the Radicals.

Starting with the conquest of the Aargau in 1415 by Bern, until the French conquest and creation of the Helvetic Republic in 1798, the rights to high and low justice were held by the bailiff in Lenzburg.

The town and the Eigenamt, in turn, found themselves in the northeastern-most section of Bern ’ s subject territories, known as Bernese Aargau.

In the Diet, six cantons which had a population of more than 100, 000 ( Bern, Zurich, Vaud, St Gallen, Graubünden and Aargau ) were given two votes, the others having but one apiece.

Mind, in his eighth year, was placed at the academy for poor children, which Pestalozzi had previously instituted at Neuenhof, near Bern, Aargau.

In 1432, after the conquest of the neighbouring Aargau, Aarwangen Castle was purchased by the city of Bern, which then acquired the remainder of the former Grünenberg estate, including the area of the current district of Aarwangen, in 1480.

* Anti-Catholic laws in the Swiss Cantons of Solothurn, Bern, Basel-Landschaft, Aargau and Zurich.

Entirely situated within the Swiss Plateau are the cantons of Zurich, Thurgau and Geneva ; mostly situated within the Swiss Plateau are the cantons of Lucerne, Aargau, Solothurn, Bern, Fribourg and Vaud ; small portions of the Swiss Plateau are situated in the cantons of Neuchâtel, Zug, Schwyz, St. Gallen and Schaffhausen.

In 1415, Langenthal became incorporated into the territory of the Republic of Bern, but it remained under the landlordship and the low court of the monastery.

After a short siege the city was captured by Bern on the 14th of April, 1415.

Between 1415 and Napoleon ’ s invasion in 1798, Brugg was a subject territory of Bern.

After 1415, Gränichen belonged to Bern.

Although the name suggests that they are located in the Bernese Oberland region of the canton of Bern, portions of the Bernese Alps are in the adjacent cantons of Valais, Lucerne, Obwalden, Fribourg and Vaud.

In Switzerland, the range covers the western border with France in the Cantons of Basel, Solothurn, Jura, Bern ( i. e., Bernese Jura ), Neuchâtel, Vaud, and the border with Germany in the canton of Schaffhausen.

To the north the canton is bounded by the Swiss cantons of Vaud and Bern ; the cantons of Uri and Ticino lie to its east.

There are two enclaves within Vaud and one within the canton of Bern, as well as a large exclave on the lake.

In contrast to the mainly Protestant cantons of Vaud to its west and Bern to its east, the canton of Fribourg is a predominantly Roman Catholic enclave (, 70 %) with a Protestant minority ( 15 %).

Map of the modern Canton of Vaud, which was annexed by Bern from 1536 until 1798.

When the Helvetic Republic collapsed in 1803, Saanen and its district became a district in the new Canton of Bern while Château-d ' Œx and its district joined Vaud.

With the Restoration of 1815, Bern acquired the Bernese Jura with Biel / Bienne from the bishopric of Basel, while the canton of Léman became the canton of Vaud and remained separate from Bern.

The lake lies mainly in the canton of Neuchâtel, but is also shared by the cantons of Vaud, of Fribourg, and of Bern.

He married 1 Nov. 1785 Jeanne-Charlotte Berczy née Allamand ( 1760 – 1839 ) of Lausanne ( canton of Bern, now-since 1803-canton of Vaud ), Switzerland.

In 2007, the Green Party was represented in the governments of the cantons Bern, Basel-City, Geneva ( two ministers ), Neuchâtel, Nidwalden, Vaud, Zug ( two ministers ) and Zurich.

With the capture of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Apples became an exclave under the administration of the Romainmôtier district.

After the capture of Vaud by Bern in 1536 Ballens shared in the fate of Aubonne and in 1701 it became part of the district of Aubonne.

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Chexbres came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Lausanne.

Vaud is the canton with the 2nd most municipalities ( after Bern ).

With the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, Cully came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Lausanne.

With the conquest by Bern of Vaud in 1536, the village came under the administration of the Bailiwick of Lausanne.

In 1798, Lutry joined, at the last minute, the Vaud revolution against Bern.