* Publication of the Anglo-Genevan metrical psalter including the " Old 100th ", the version of the hymn " All People That on Earth Do Dwell " made from Psalm 100, attributed to the probably-Scottish clergyman and biblical translator William Kethe, exiled in Geneva.

By birth a Swiss descended from an exiled French family, Malan was born in Geneva, where his father, Dr Henri Abraham César Malan ( 1787-1864 ) enjoyed a great reputation as a Protestant divine.

Present was John Calvin, then exiled from Geneva ; he appeared as confidential agent of the King of France.

He exiled himself to Geneva during the Empire, and to Brussels during the Bourbon Restoration ; he returned to Paris after the 1830 July Revolution.

He fled to Egypt and then Geneva and co-established the Syrian-Palestinian Congress in exile, with a group of other exiled nationalists from Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine.

Dufour was born in Konstanz, where his parents were temporarily exiled from Geneva.

He was born at Geneva, of a noble family originally from Lucca in Italy, exiled on account of its Protestantism.

Back in Geneva, he had an affair with Germaine de Staël, who, exiled from Paris by Napoleon, lived in her castle at near-by Coppet.

The Kennedy administration moves haltingly toward a Geneva conference on Laos just as serious debate over its foreign policy erupts for the first time.

* 1988 – In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.

As a result of the Geneva Conference on Indochina, Cambodia was able to bring about the withdrawal of the Viet Minh troops from its territory and to withstand any residual impingement upon its sovereignty by external powers.

Nevertheless the International Committee of the Red Cross has sought to provide some clarification through its commentaries on the Geneva Conventions, noting that the Conventions are " so general, so vague, that many of the delegations feared that it might be taken to cover any act committed by force of arms ".

While its headquarters is located in Geneva, the programs cover the whole of Romandy and are not specific to Geneva.

The agglomération franco-valdo-genevoise includes the Canton of Geneva in its entirety as well as the District of Nyon in the Canton of Vaud and several areas in the neighboring French departments of Haute-Savoie and Ain.

Together with Don Kaye, Mike Reese, and Leon Tucker, Gygax created a military miniatures society called Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association ( LGTSA ) in 1970, with its first headquarters in Gygax's basement.

Originally located in London, the commission moved to its current headquarters in Geneva in 1948.

He continued to support the reform movement in Geneva, and was eventually invited back to lead its church.

On 16 January 1537, Farel and Calvin presented their Articles concernant l ' organisation de l ' église et du culte à Genève ( Articles on the Organization of the Church and its Worship at Geneva ) to the city council.

Geneva reconsidered its expulsion of Calvin.

By 1585, Geneva, once the wellspring of the reform movement, had become merely its symbol.

In theory, Geneva was governed democratically by its male voting citizens, a minority of the population.

One month following its conclusion, a similar agreement, General Act for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, was concluded in Geneva, which obliged its signatory parties to establish conciliation commissions in any case of dispute.

It met in Geneva and, after its initial sessions in 1920, it convened once a year in September.

These were further expanded in the Third Geneva Convention of 1929, and its revision of 1949.

The IWA held a preliminary conference in 1865, and had its first congress at Geneva in 1866.

In 1956, the United Nations held its first Conference on the Law of the Sea ( UNCLOS I ) at Geneva, Switzerland.

It offers master's degree and doctoral programmes at its main headquarters in San José, Costa Rica, and carries out various activities related to the international peace and security objectives of the United Nations ( UN ) through centres and offices located in Addis Ababa, Geneva, New York, The Hague, and South Korea, and through partnership arrangements with numerous other institutions worldwide.

The Geneva Office of UPEACE, established in 2001, has continued to support the development of the overall activities of the University, in particular its regional programmes in Africa and Central Asia.

It has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a member of the United Nations Development Group.

** In the Geneva Accords, the Soviet Union commits itself to withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.

Peter Caroli had come to Geneva, saying that he had been a bishop of the Church of Rome and had been persecuted in Paris for his Reformed faith.

The massacre of St Bartholomew — occurring as he was about to accompany the bishop of Valence on an embassy to Poland — made Scaliger flee, together with other Huguenots, for Geneva, where he was appointed a professor in the academy.

* Saint Francis de Sales ( 1567 – 1622 ), French born bishop of Geneva, Switzerland

By the time bishop John Henry Hobart, of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, first visited the city of Geneva in 1818, the doors of Geneva Academy had just closed.

Agreeable to the resolution, the bishop viewed several sites in Geneva and on March 17, 1821, he communicated to the trustees his selection of the college site.

Though he had visited many areas as a bishop, he selected the small village of Geneva on Seneca Lake for his new outpost of learning.

Pope Clement VIII offered encouragement ; in 1602 he appointed as Catholic bishop of Geneva Francis de Sales, an effective preacher who had recently been successful in re-Catholicizing the Chablais district of Savoy on the south side of Lake Geneva.

In 1513, the Duke of Savoy nominated his cousin as bishop of Geneva, and Berthelier called for a rebellion, but later made a political compromise with the Bishop of Geneva when accepting nomination as commander of the Castle of Penay.

In February 1518 he returned to Geneva after being given safe conduct by the bishop of that city, and in October of the same year began a series of secret meetings with members of the republican faction in the city ( known as Huguenots ) for the purpose of overthrowing Savoy rule.

In order to prevent any rebellion, the bishop of Geneva decided to move his residence into that city from Pignerol, where he resided most of the time, and on April 20, 1519 moved into Geneva.

During these visits Shelley wrote the poem " Mont Blanc ", Byron wrote " The Prisoner of Chillon " and the dramatic poem Manfred, and Mary Shelley, who found the scenery overwhelming, conceived the idea for the novel Frankenstein in her villa on the shores of Lake Geneva in the midst of a thunderstorm.

Firmin Abauzit ( 1679 – 1767 ) was a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Geneva ( Switzerland ) during his final 40 years.

By the 18th century, however, Geneva had come under the influence of Catholic France, which cultivated the city elite, who tended to be at odds with the ordinary townsfolk – to the point that an abortive revolution took place in 1782.

Geneva is the home of the Genève-Servette HC, who play in the Swiss National League A, and is the main sport team of the city.

William Farel was the reformer who convinced Calvin to stay in Geneva.

The Geneva council refused to readmit the two men, who took refuge in Basel.

A few months later Ami Perrin, the man who had brought Calvin to Geneva, moved into open opposition.

Jean-Jacques was left with his maternal uncle, who packed him, along with his own son, Abraham Bernard, away to board for two years with a Calvinist minister in a hamlet outside Geneva.

The office is headed by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, who co-ordinates human rights activities throughout the UN System and supervises the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.

The German forces captured 3 million Soviet POWs, who did not enjoy the protection stipulated in the Geneva Conventions.

The first full preterist exposition was finally written in 1730 by the Protestant and Arian, Frenchman Firmin Abauzit (‘ Essai sur l ' Apocalypse ’), who worked in the those time independent Republic of Geneva as a librarian.

Presbyterianism was especially influenced by the French / Swiss theologian, John Calvin, who is credited with the development of Reformed theology and the work of John Knox, a Scotsman who studied with Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland and brought his teachings back to Scotland.

John Knox, a Scotsman who studied with Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland, took Calvin's teachings back to Scotland ( see Scottish Reformation ).

Initially agreement had been reached for him to marry Margaret of Geneva, daughter of William I, Count of Geneva, but the young bride's journey to Paris was interrupted by Thomas I of Savoy, who kidnapped Philip's intended new queen and married her instead, claiming that Philip was already bound in marriage.

*" We train our people to obey the Geneva Conventions, it's not even a matter of whether it is reciprocated-it's a matter of who we are ".

* Khmer Viet Minh Cambodian communists who lived in exile in North Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference.

Set in a post-apocalyptic Seattle, the show chronicles the life of Max Guevara ( X5-452 ), a genetically enhanced super-soldier, portrayed by Jessica Alba as an adult and Geneva Locke as a child, who, after escaping from a covert government biotech / military facility as a child, tries to lead some semblance of a normal life and constantly tries to elude capture by government agents, while searching for her genetically-enhanced brothers and sisters scattered in the aftermath of their escape.

The four Geneva Conventions provide protection for people who fall into enemy hands.

The protocol also broadens the definition of a lawful combatant in wars against " alien occupation, colonial domination and racist regimes " to include those who carry arms openly but are not wearing uniforms, so that they are now lawful combatants and protected by the Geneva Conventions — although only if the Occupying Power has ratified Protocol I.

However, Protocol I, Article 42 of the Geneva Conventions explicitly forbids attacking parachutists who eject from damaged airplanes, and surrendering parachutists once landed.

Realising Diệm's popularity among American policymakers, he chose Diệm's youngest brother Ngô Đình Luyện, who was studying in Europe at the time, to be part of his delegation at the 1954 Geneva Conference to determine the future of Indochina.

The Geneva Convention requires that POWs who are on trial for war crimes be subject to the same procedures as would be the holding army's own soldiers.

His father was a Mercedarian " commendator " and religious refugee who converted to Calvinism in Geneva.