* 1291 – The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.

* 1388 – Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels.

On 27 December 1797, the last Tagsatzung of the Old Swiss Confederacy was held in Aarau.

The County of Baden was a shared condominium of the entire Old Swiss Confederacy.

Borromini was born at Bissone, near Lugano in the Ticino, which was at the time a bailiwick of the Swiss Confederacy.

Already during the high medieval period, and increasingly during the Late Middle Ages, city states and communes such as those of the Old Swiss Confederacy also began to use flags as field signs.

In 1442, Frederick allied himself with Rudolf Stüssi, burgomaster of Zürich, against the Old Swiss Confederacy in the Old Zürich War ( Alter Zürichkrieg ).

King Louis XI and later his allies, the Old Swiss Confederacy, faced Charles the Bold during the Burgundian Wars ( 1474 – 1477 ).

* 1386 – The Old Swiss Confederacy makes great strides in establishing control over its territory by soundly defeating the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Sempach.

Rousseau was born in Geneva, which was at the time a city-state and a Protestant associate of the Swiss Confederacy.

* 1476 – Burgundian Wars: The Old Swiss Confederacy hands Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, a major defeat in the Battle of Grandson in Canton of Neuchâtel.

* Johann Rudolf Wettstein, the mayor of Basel, represented the Old Swiss Confederacy.

The Swiss were victorious, and the Swiss Confederacy was proclaimed, and Switzerland has retained a republican form of government to the present.

Most important was Calvinist theology, which developed in the Swiss Confederacy, one of the largest and most powerful of the medieval republics.

From 1291, it focuses mainly on the fates of the Old Swiss Confederacy, at first consisting of only three cantons ( Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden ) in what is now central Switzerland, and gradually expanding until it encompassed the present-day area of Switzerland in 1815.

Their union, one nucleus of the Old Swiss Confederacy, is recorded in the Federal Charter, a document probably written after the fact in the early 14th century.

The Swiss army originated from the cantonal troops of the Old Swiss Confederacy, called upon in cases of external threats by the Tagsatzung or by the canton in distress.

On 1 May 1351, the citizens of Zurich had to swear allegiance before representatives of the cantons of Lucerne, Schwyz, Uri and Unterwalden, the other members of the Swiss Confederacy.

* April 12 – Helvetic Republic, a French client republic, proclaimed following collapse of the Old Swiss Confederacy on French invasion.

With the help of the Old Swiss Confederacy, they routed the Burgundian army and captured three capes of the of the Golden Fleece which belonged to Charles the Bold including one with the emblems of Philip the Good, his father.

* Appenzell becomes a member of Old Swiss Confederacy.

* The Swiss cantons of Basel and Schaffhausen secede from the Holy Roman Empire and join the Old Swiss Confederacy.

It did, however, hit # 7 on the Austrian and Swiss music charts and # 8 in Norway.

The fact that the euro and the Swiss franc is worth a lot more in forints than they did before affected a lot of people.

The Swiss did not participate in either World War I or World War II.

Although the Penny Black could be used to send a letter less than half an ounce anywhere within the United Kingdom, the Swiss did not initially adopt that system, instead continuing to calculate mail rates based on distance to be delivered.

Although the authorities prevailed in this Swiss peasant war, they did pass some tax reforms and the incident in the long term prevented an absolutist development as would occur at some other courts of Europe.

The Swiss government did not officially confirm the existence of the report, but started a judiciary procedure for leakage of secret documents against the newspaper on 9 January 2006.

* Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ) Swiss political philosopher ; influenced many Enlightenment figures but did not himself believe in primacy of reason and is closer to Romanticism.

Concern for her own health together with the anguish of leaving her husband and children in occupied France was hard to bear and she did make several dangerous visits back to France, enduring detention by German troops at the Swiss border on more than one occasion.

But the investigating judge had joined the army, the Ministry of Justice did not want the trial to proceed, and the Swiss lawyer engaged by the Germans employed various delaying tactics.

In 1705 the Swiss explorer Louise Michel and in 1716 Governor Alexander Spotswood did more extensive mapping and surveying.

A steady stream of Swiss and German people came into the area from that train, as did English-speaking migrants, some of which became successful businessmen in the new community.

After years of negotiations, at least one boatload of Swiss did sail from Europe but they were shipwrecked in a December gale off the coast of Virginia and none of the few survivors are believed to have reached Eden.

Two Swiss officers, the captains Henri de Salis and Joseph Zimmermann, did however survive and went on to reach senior rank under Napoleon and the Restoration.

Bucer did not hesitate to disagree with Zwingli on occasion, although unity between Strasbourg and the Swiss churches took priority over such differences.

As he writes in his book, " A Memory of Solferino ," the Swiss Henri Dunant did not witness the battle.

He was quoted as saying that " there is no reason for the Swiss Government to pay anything ", as a government commission had shown " we did what was possible in the hard times of the war .".

Up until this time, the Swiss Brethren ( who did not use the name " Mennonite " for themselves ) had no official confession of faith beyond the Schleitheim Confession.

Swiss Brethren had practiced excommunication and a refusal to " eat " the Supper with those banned, but their avoidance did not include refraining from eating regular meals with those in the bann.

In 1693, Jakob Ammann, " together with the ministers and elders ," sent a general letter to people within the Swiss Brethren congregations, asking for a meeting in which he wanted clarification about where they stood on three issues: 1 ) Shunning those who had been banned, 2 ) whether liars should be excommunicated, and 3 ) if people could be saved who did not follow God's word.

Others say it was Swiss gas dynamicist Jacob Ackeret ( 1898 – 1981 ) who did the calculations.

However, Gilmour's physical style did not suit him well in the Swiss League.

" Although the pike had become a Swiss weapon of choice and represented modern warfare, the hilly terrain of Northumberland, the nature of the combat, and the slippery footing did not allow it to be employed to best effect.

The Swiss did not want to fight each other and chose to leave Novara.

Six American diplomats did however avoid capture and found refuge at the nearby Canadian and Swiss embassies in Tehran for three months ( Canadian caper ).