( Christianity, a public holiday in Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia, Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Togo, and Vanuatu ), and its related observances:

Aalto also entered several architectural competitions for prestigious state public buildings, both in Finland and abroad, including the two competitions for the Finnish Parliamentary building in 1923 and 1924, the extension to the University of Helsinki in 1931, and the building to house the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1926-27.

In 1543, Vesalius conducted a public dissection of the body of Jakob Karrer von Gebweiler, a notorious felon from the city of Basel, Switzerland.

Pentecost Monday is a public holiday in many European countries including Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania ( since 2008 ), ( most parts of ) Switzerland, Ukraine and also in the African nations Senegal, Benin and Togo.

While Zschokke appeared as one of the most distinguished and energetic public men in Switzerland, he still found time to cultivate his favorite literary pursuits, and it is chiefly by his numerous writings, historical and fictitious, that he became known to the world at large.

In 1919, a company wanting to build power stations in northern Switzerland were told that any such station at the Rhine Falls " must serve the economic interest of the public ".

Switzerland: The Solothurn house that was Kościuszko's last residence, now houses a Kościuszko Museum, open to the public at certain stated times.

It was later discovered that, during his 20 years in power, he and his wife Imelda Marcos had moved billions of dollars of embezzled public funds to accounts and investments in the United States, Switzerland, and other countries.

World AIDS Day was first conceived in August 1987 by James W. Bunn and Thomas Netter, two public information officers for the Global Programme on AIDS at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

Thus, in places such as Switzerland, Finland, Thailand, and India, citizens may purchase special fare tickets for public transportation that are available only to citizens.

* Radio Télévision Suisse, the French-speaking public broadcasting company of Switzerland

In 1968, the Maharishi announced that he would stop his " public activities " and instead begin the training of TM teachers at his new global headquarters in Seelisberg, Switzerland.

In Geneva, Switzerland, the two Contemporary Art Funds of the City and the Canton ( FMAC and FCAC ) are looking forward to integrate art into the architecture and in the public space since 1980.

In general, Conductors in Switzerland have the duty of collecting tickets and punching them, fining people the first charge of 100 CHF for not having a valid fare, and making announcements on the public address system.

He seems never to have left Switzerland, nor does he appear to have taken any part in public affairs except for the period between 1752 and 1768, during which he was a member of the council of the republic.

Like every public university in Switzerland, ETH is obliged to grant admission to every Swiss citizen who took the Matura.

High-profile public sector users include the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Brazilian Government, United Nations, City of Bern ( Switzerland ), New South Wales Government ( Australia ), and European Environment Agency.

Among the public collections holding works by Barnett Newman are the Addison Gallery of American Art ( Andover, Massachusetts ), the Allen Memorial Art Museum ( Oberlin College, Ohio ), the Art Institute of Chicago, the Berlin State Museums, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Harvard University Art Museums, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden ( Washington D. C .), the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art ( Japan ), Kunstmuseum Basel ( Switzerland ), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Menil Collection ( Houston, Texas ), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía ( Madrid ), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art ( New York City ), the Nasher Sculpture Center ( Dallas, Texas ), the Nassau County Museum of Art ( Roslyn Harbor, New York ), the National Gallery of Art ( Washington D. C .), the National Gallery of Canada ( Ottawa ), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Sheldon Museum of Art ( Lincoln, Nebraska ), the Smithsonian American Art Museum ( Washington D. C .), Stedelijk Museum ( Amsterdam ), the Tate Gallery ( London ), the Wadsworth Atheneum ( Hartford, Connecticut ), the Walker Art Center ( Minneapolis, Minnesota ), the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum ( Cologne, Germany ), and the Whitney Museum of American Art ( New York City ).

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, popularly known as Virginia Tech ( VT ), is a public land-grant university with the main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, with other research and educational centers throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, the National Capital Region, and international locations in Switzerland and the Dominican Republic.

Santeromande. ch is an extensive database, mainly directed towards the French speaking public of Switzerland and neighbouring France and provides reliable health information, directory of registered health professionals, medical centers or hospitals, medical associations and federal organizations.

The feast of the Assumption on August 15 is a public holiday in many countries, including Austria, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Ecuador, France, Germany ( Bavaria and Saarland only ), Greece, Lebanon, Lithuania, Italy, Malta, Mauritius, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland ( 8 cantons only ) and Vanuatu.

The Solemnity of the Assumption on August 15 is a public holiday in many countries, including Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chile, Republic of Congo, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Colombia, Cyprus, East Timor, France, Gabon, Greece, Republic of Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Republic of Macedonia, Madagascar, Malta, Mauritius, Republic of Moldova, Monaco, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Tahiti, Togo, and Vanuatu.

The Suva, headquartered in Lucerne, is a public sector insurer and leading provider of health care coverage for employees in case of accidents in Switzerland.

Two other bands also managed to be in the public eye in this year, with a Liquido track being featured in a Carlsberg beer commercial and Swiss Gotthard's track " Lift U Up " promoted as official song for the European Soccer Championship in Switzerland and Austria.

In Germany, Switzerland and England, conversion to Protestantism had been enforced on the whole population at the level of a city, principality or kingdom, with varying degrees of discrimination, persecution or expulsion applied to those who insisted on remaining Catholic.

Almost simultaneously the negotiations assumed two phases: ( a ) respecting the ratification of a treaty in which lurked the possibility that American citizens who were not Christians might be discriminated against, and ( b ) concerning the actual discrimination in Switzerland against American citizens, on the ground that they belonged to the Jewish faith.

In 1857, when a new treaty was to be concluded between the United States and Switzerland, he visited Washington as chairman of a delegation to protest against the ratification of this treaty unless Switzerland should cease its discrimination against American Jews.

A hat-trick in the 8 – 1 rout of Switzerland in June 1963 took Charlton's England goal tally to 30, equalling the record jointly held by Tom Finney and Nat Lofthouse and Charlton's 31st goal against Wales in October the same year gave him the record alone.

Capello took charge of his first game on 6 February 2008 against Switzerland, in which England won 2 – 1.

Swiss Democrats, Ticino League, Swiss People's Party are against accession of Switzerland to the European Union.

To that end, they had arranged for the safe conduct of Lenin and his comrades from exile in Switzerland to Petrograd in April 1917, and financed the Bolshevik party, believing Lenin to be the most powerful weapon they could use against Russia.

In Europe, it is believed that in 1885 the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club was formed to play the first Ice Hockey Varsity Match against traditional rival Cambridge in St. Moritz, Switzerland, although this is undocumented.

After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France, Calvin fled to Basel, Switzerland, where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536.

On 3 August 1914, at the outbreak of World War I which pitted Austria-Hungary against the Russian empire, Trotsky was forced to flee Vienna for neutral Switzerland to avoid arrest as a Russian émigré.

In Switzerland, Trotsky briefly worked within the Swiss Socialist Party, prompting it to adopt an internationalist resolution, and wrote a book against the war, The War and the International.

Switzerland has had long and heated parliamentary debates about whether to follow the Dutch model on cannabis, most recently deciding against it in 2004 ; currently a ballot initiative is in the works on the question.

Rossini's opera William Tell ( 1829 ) marked the onset of the Romantic Opera, using the central national myth unifying Switzerland ; and in Brussels, a riot ( August 1830 ) after an opera that set a doomed romance against a background of foreign oppression ( Auber's La Muette de Portici ) sparked the Belgian Revolution of 1830-1831, the first successful revolution in the model of Romantic nationalism.

During the French Revolutionary Wars, French armies enveloped Switzerland during their battles against Austria.

Though not a member at the time, Switzerland had joined UN sanctions against Iraq after the invasion of Kuwait.

Switzerland in October 2000 implemented an ordinance to enforce UN sanctions against the Taliban ( UNSCR 1267 ), which it subsequently amended in April 2001 in accord with tighter UN regulations ( UNSCR 1333 ).

The culmination of that conflict led to the resignation of the national team coach, Otto Pfister, and the threat made by the players not to play their game against Switzerland on 16 June 2006.

* 1474 – 1477: Burgundy Wars of France, Switzerland, Lorraine and Sigismund II of Habsburg against the Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.

* Stilicho, Roman general ( magister militum ), leads his army in an extensive campaign against the Vandals in Rhaetia ( Switzerland ).

* 1260 – War breaks out in the Valais ( today in Switzerland ) as the Bishopric of Sion defends against an invasion by the County of Savoy.

During Julius Caesar's campaign against the Helvetii ( present-day Switzerland ) approximately 60 % of the tribe was destroyed, and another 20 % was taken into slavery.

A 4-4 draw against Belgium and a victory against Switzerland were enough to place England top of the first-round group and qualify for the quarter-finals, where they were beaten 4-2 by defending champions Uruguay.

In May 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland the United Nations Committee against Torture released a report, which, along with calling on the United States to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and criticizing interrogation techniques, took note of the " limited investigation and lack of prosecution " in connection to accusations of torture in Areas 2 and 3 of the Chicago Police Department.

* War breaks out in the Valais ( today in Switzerland ) as the Bishopry of Sion defends against an invasion by the County of Savoy.

" Once he was safely in Switzerland, Engels began to write down all his memories of the recent military campaign against the Prussians.

* September 11 – 22 – A series of protests, some of them violent, is directed against United States diplomatic missions worldwide, as well as diplomatic missions of Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.