The Bern meeting would consider both the future of the IFTU and the various proposals which had been made in the previous few years.

While Schwyz gained no territory from the battle, both Bern and Lucerne gained significant territories at the expense of the Habsburgs.

In the 2010 election, the two new Councillors Simonetta Sommaruga and Johann Schneider-Ammann were both from the Canton of Bern.

The background to Gull's work was research performed by Claude Bernard in 1855 around the concept of the Milieu intérieur and subsequently by Moritz Schiff in Bern in 1859, and who showed that thyroidectomy in dogs invariably proved fatal ; Schiff later showed that grafts or injections of thyroid reversed the symptoms in both thyroidectomised animals and humans.

The Canton of Bern (, ; ) is the second largest of the 26 Swiss cantons by both surface area and population.

The area of the canton of Bern consists of lands acquired by the city of Bern mostly between the 14th and the 16th century, both by conquest and purchase.

However, in 1555 the last Count of Gruyère lost both districts to Bern when his county went bankrupt.

Jon Povey ( born 20 August 1942, London ) and Wally Waller ( born Alan Edward Waller, 9 April 1944, Barnehurst, Kent ), both former Fenmen from Bern Elliott and the Fenmen, joined and made the band a five-piece once again.

In the 1952 Swiss Grand Prix, in Bern, Fischer finished second to Piero Taruffi ; both drivers were in Ferraris.

Two other nonconformist tracts appeared, both deploying established authorities such as St. Ambrose, Theophilactus of Bulgaria, Erasmus, Bucer, Martyr, John Epinus of Hamburg, Matthias Flacius Illyricus, Philipp Melanchthon, a Lasco, Bullinger, Wolfgang Musculus of Bern, and Rodolph Gualter.

In the 14th century we have Christian Kuchlmaster's continuation of the annals of the famous monastery of St Gall, in the early 15th century the rhymed chronicle of the war between the Appenzellers and the abbot of St Gall, and rather later in the same century the chronicles of Conrad Justinger of Bern and Hans Fründ ( d. 1469 ) of Lucerne, besides the fantastical chronicle of Strattligen and a scarcely less fanciful poem on the supposed Scandinavian descent of the men of Schwyz and of Ober Hasle, both by Eulogius Kiburger ( d. 1506 ) of Berne.

Plans had previously been made to stage Wednesday in Bonn in 2000 and in Bern in 2003, but both were canceled due to financial and technical problems.

Furthermore, the people of the Bernese Oberland had formed a separate canton in the Helvetic Republic, leading the Mayor of Bern, Niklaus Friedrich von Mülinen and Interlaken's chief magistrate, Franz Ludwig Thormann ( and others ) to organize this festival in an effort to bring both sides together.

The city of Bern or Berne (, ; ; ; ; Bernese German: Bärn ) is the Bundesstadt ( federal city, de facto capital ) of Switzerland, and, with ( as of ) a population of, the fourth most populous city in Switzerland.

The official language of Bern is German, but the main spoken language is the Alemannic dialect called Bernese German.

It has long been considered likely that the city was named after the Italian city of Verona, which at the time was known as Bern in Middle High German.

Other giants, perhaps descended from earlier Germanic mythology, feature as frequent opponents of Dietrich von Bern in medieval German tales-in later portrayals Dietrich himself and his fellow heroes also became giants.

Sönke Wortmann's 2003 German box-office hit The Miracle of Bern ( in German: Das Wunder von Bern ) re-tells the story of the German team's route to victory through the eyes of a young boy who admires the key player of the final, Helmut Rahn.

The Middle High German legend of Dietrich von Bern is based on the historical Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths.

The German Dietrich von Bern is reflected as Þiðrekr af Bern in the Old Norse Thidrekssaga.

New Bern was first settled by Europeans in 1710 by Swiss and German immigrants under the leadership of Christoph de Graffenried, Franz Louis Michel and John Lawson.

He married at Bern in 1790, began to write in German and published in that language his next poem, Alpenlied.

He studied at the University of London and Bern, and holds degrees in German, philosophy, and natural science.

Daniel Albert Wyttenbach ( August 7, 1746, Bern – January 17, 1820, Oegstgeest ) was a German Swiss classical scholar.

This match is known in Germany as The Miracle of Bern ( Das Wunder von Bern ) because of its " David versus Goliath "- like setting, and it is generally seen as an instrumental part of the rebuilding of the German people's morale after the World War II.

Swiss Federal Railways, usually abbreviated in English using the German SBB (, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen ;, Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses ;, Ferrovie federali svizzere ; Romansh: Viafiers federalas svizras ; VFS ( Romansh ) is not in official use ) is the national railway company of Switzerland headquartered in Bern.

He is mentioned in the German poems about Dietrich von Bern as the Father of Witige.

Veròna ); German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern ) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx.

The Jungfrau ( German: " maiden / virgin ") is one of the main summits in the Bernese Alps, situated between the cantons of Valais and Bern in Switzerland.

On December 11, OSS operative William Donovan sent Roosevelt a telegraph message from Bern, warning him of the consequences that the knowledge of the Morgenthau plan had had on German resistance ; by showing them that the enemy planned the enslavement of Germany it had welded together ordinary Germans and the regime ; the Germans continue to fight because they are convinced that defeat will bring nothing but oppression and exploitation.

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.

* March 5 – French troops enter Bern.

Bern was occupied by French troops in 1798 during the French Revolutionary Wars, when it was stripped of parts of its territories.

They were destroyed in the French Bombardment of Brussels in 1695, but are known from many surviving descriptions, from a free partial copy in tapestry ( Bern, Historisches Museum ) and from other free and partial copies in drawing and painting.

In 1879 he was appointed French ambassador at Bern, and in 1880 was transferred to London ; but he lacked the temperament of a successful diplomat.

It shares borders with the Canton of Basel-Landschaft, the Canton of Bern, and the French département of Doubs.

Aigle and Grandson were the first French speaking regions in the Canton of Bern.

After completing his Ph. D, Gobat began his practicing law in Bern and also lectured on French civil law at Bern University.

Following the 1798 French invasion and the creation of the Helvetic Republic it was the capital of the district of Oberhasli in the Canton of Oberland ( 1798 – 1803 ) and then the capital of the and the District of Oberhasli in the canton of Bern.

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

Republicans in the Swiss cantons, supported by the French army, overthrew the central government in Bern and established the Helvetic Republic.

Collectif, Die Androïden: zur Poetologie des Automaten, Bern, Peter Lang, 1996 ( contributions in German en French.

After the 1798 French invasion and under the Helvetic Republic, Bremgarten was granted a town council and became part of the District of Bern.

In early 1945, Currie headed a tripartite ( U. S., British, and French ) mission to Bern to persuade the Swiss to freeze Nazi bank balances and stop further shipments of German supplies through Switzerland to the Italian front.

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.

As the French proceeded through Swiss territory and the end of Bern ’ s rule drew near at the beginning of 1798, a revolutionary committee seized power.

They are also termed Ämter ( Lucerne, singular Amt ), Amtsbezirke ( Bern, Amtsbezirk ), district ( in French ) or distretto ( Ticino and part of Graubünden ).

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.

With the new situation of 1589, the city now got support not only from Bern but also from the French king, and it went to war.

He identified with the French speaking population that felt oppressed by the German speaking city of Bern that occupied Vaud.

Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Ce, Paris 1870 ( Autobiography by Joly in French, found in the Documents of the Berne Trial, State Archive Bern ), copy from Paris, Bibl.

During that period the Swiss vernacular literature was in German, although in the 18th century French became fashionable in Bern and elsewhere.