The Habsburgs founded a number of monasteries ( with some structures enduring, e. g., in Wettingen and Muri ), the closing of which by the government in 1841 was a contributing factor to the outbreak of the Swiss civil war – the " Sonderbund War " – in 1847.

2008 has brought announcements of new or additional sales to Singapore, Finland, Morocco and South Korea ; in December 2010 the Swiss government requested 150 AIM-120C-7 missiles.

The government of Libya subsequently put a boycott on Swiss imports, reduced flights between Libya and Switzerland, stopped issuing visas to Swiss citizens, recalled diplomats from Bern, and forced all Swiss companies such as ABB and Nestlé to close offices.

On September 9, 2007 the Swiss government acknowledged the " racist thinking " of Agassiz but declined to rename the Agassizhorn summit.

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

In addition to the centralization of the Swiss government, the new Constitution also included protections for trade and other progressive reform measures.

In the 1990s, controversy over a class-action lawsuit brought in Brooklyn, New York over Jewish assets in Holocaust-era bank accounts prompted the Swiss government to commission the most recent and authoritative study of Switzerland's interaction with the Nazi regime.

The Swiss government has been a coalition of the four major political parties since 1959, each party having a number of seats that roughly reflects its share of electorate and representation in the federal parliament.

The five parties represented in the Federal Council are generally called the government parties: Free Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party, Christian Democratic Party, Swiss People's Party, and Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland.

The rightist Swiss People's Party ( SVP ), traditionally the junior partner in the four-party coalition government, more than doubled its voting share from 11. 0 % in 1987 to 22. 5 % in 1999, thus overtaking its three coalition partners.

The Swiss Federal Constitution limits federal influence in the formulation of domestic policy and emphasizes the roles of private enterprise and cantonal government.

* Swiss government site ( in English )

On 8 January 2006, the Swiss newspaper Sonntagsblick ( Sunday edition of the Blick newspaper ) published a secret report produced by the Swiss government using data intercepted by Onyx.

The Swiss government thought that the aim of an invasion of Switzerland would be to control the economically important transport routes through the Swiss Alps, namely the Gotthard, the Simplon and Great St. Bernard passes, because Switzerland does not possess any significant natural resources.

The Swiss government on June 25, 2003, eased most of the sanctions against the Republic of Iraq in accord with UN Security Council Resolution ( UNSCR ) 1483.

In 1992 Swiss voters approved membership in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, but later that year rejected the European Economic Area agreement, which the government viewed as a first step toward European Union membership.

The Swiss electorate rejected a government proposition to deploy Swiss troops as UN peacekeepers ( the Blue Helmets ) in 1994.

Gustloff, who worked as a Swiss government meteorologist, joined the NSDAP in 1929 and put much effort in the distribution of the antisemitic book The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, to the point that members of the Swiss Jewish community sued the book's distributor, the Swiss branch of the German Nazi Party, for libel.

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.

* 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.

The Swiss Confederacy did not accept the resolutions of the Imperial Diet and explicitly refused to pay the Common Penny, one of the circumstances leading to the Swabian War of 1499 and the Confederacy's exemption from imperial legislation.

" 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 ).