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Canton Zurich also issued a stamp in 1850, known to collectors as the Winterthur issue, depicting the Swiss federal cross and a posthorn, which served as a transitional issue until the stamps of the Swiss federal government made their appearance later that same year.
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After the French invasion, on 19 March 1798, the governments of Zurich and Bern agreed to the creation of the short lived Canton of Baden in the Helvetic Republic.
It is included, or the greater portion, in the Canton of Zurich, but at its easterly end about 20 km² towards the southern shore are in Canton of Schwyz, and 10 km² towards its northern shore in Canton of St. Gallen.
Keller returned again to Zurich and became the First Official Secretary of the Canton of Zurich ( Erster Zürcher Staatsschreiber ) in 1861.
Villages and lands along Lake Zurich, including Wollerau and Pfäffikon ( in 1440 ), Hurden and Ufenau Island all became part of the Canton in the 14th and 15th centuries.
In 1918, Schwyzer troops were called up to join the Federal Army in suppressing striking workers in the Canton of Uri, in Rapperswil and in the Zurich Oberland.
To the north, the canton is bound by the Canton of Zurich, whereas to the east and south lies the Canton of Schwyz.
The first flight abroad from Switzerland was on July 21, 1921, but the decision to begin the search for an acceptable location for a major airport wasn ’ t started until 1943 inside the Canton of Zurich.
The site in Zurich was chosen in 1945 by the federal government and sold 655 hectares of Kloten Ordnance Depot to the Canton of Zurich.
The next largest event for the airport was in 1999, when the Parliament of the Canton of Zurich approved privatization of Zurich Airport.
Canton and also
Outside the East Indies, the Dutch East India Company colonies or outposts were also established in Persia ( now Iran ), Bengal ( now Bangladesh and part of India ), Mauritius ( 1638-1658 / 1664-1710 ), Siam ( now Thailand ), Guangzhou ( Canton, China ), Taiwan ( 1624 – 1662 ), and southern India ( 1616 – 1795 ).
His parents, Carl Gustavus and Gunda ( née Jacobson ) Lawrence, were both the offspring of Norwegian immigrants who had met while teaching at the high school in Canton, South Dakota, where his father was also the superintendent of schools.
Dutch factory of Hugly-Chinsurah in BengalVOC trading posts were also established in Persia, Bengal, Malacca, Siam, Canton, Formosa ( now Taiwan ), as well as the Malabar and Coromandel coasts in India.
* Canton of Rennes-Nord-Ouest, which includes parts of Rennes but also the communes of Gévezé, Pacé and Parthenay-de-Bretagne ( 28, 130 inhabitants )
The local tael also took precedence over any central measure, so the Canton tael weighed 37. 5 grams, the Convention or Shanghai tael was 33. 9 g ( 1. 09 oz troy ), and the Customs or Hǎiguān ( 海關 ) tael 37. 8 g ( defined as 1 < sup > 1 </ sup >⁄< sub > 3 </ sub > oz avoirdupois, about 1. 22 oz troy ).
Canton Ticino or Ticino (; ; see also in other languages ) is the southernmost canton of Switzerland.
* Marcello Sorce Keller ,“ Canton Ticino: una identità musicale ?”, Cenobio, LII ( 2003 ), April – June, pp. 171 – 184 ; also later published in Bulletin – Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Musikethnologie und Gesellschaft für die Volksmusik in der Schweiz, October 2005, pp. 30 – 37.
Portuguese fishermen from the Azores also settled in the area, as did immigrants from Canton Province in China, who built a Taoist temple in the town.
A research and genealogical library containing thousands of documents and photographs related to Canton and Collinsville history is also located upstairs, including black & white photos of the 1955 Flood.
Some cities — though also members of different confederacies at that time — officially became sovereign city-states in the 19th century — such as the Canton of Basel City ( 1833 – 48 ), the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen ( 1806 – 11 and again 1813 – 71 ), the Free City of Frankfurt upon Main ( 1815 – 66 ), the Canton of Geneva ( 1813 – 48 ), the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ( 1806 – 11 and again 1814 – 71 ) and the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck ( 1806 – 11 and again 1813 – 71 ).
* Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672 / " An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperor of China: delivered by their excellencies Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking wherein the cities, towns, villages, ports, rivers, & c. in their passages from Canton to Peking are ingeniously described by John Nieuhoff ; also an epistle of Father John Adams, their antagonist, concerning the whole negotiation ; with an appendix of several remarks taken out of Father Athanasius Kircher ; Englished and set forth with their several sculptures by John Ogilby " ( 1673 )
As well as ceding the island of Hong Kong to the United Kingdom in perpetuity, the treaty also established five treaty ports at Shanghai, Canton, Ningpo, Fuchow, and Amoy.
The school also owns a campus in the ski resort village of Gstaad in the Canton of Bern, where the student body, faculty, and staff move to during the Winter months of January through March.
There were also reports sent to Beijing by Canton officials stating that the Portuguese were bothersome foreigners who sought to build their own trading post.
Rolle is also the birthplace of Frédéric-César de la Harpe ( 1754 – 1838 ), who was the tutor of Alexander I of Russia and was largely responsible for the independence of the Canton of Vaud from the Bernese.
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