Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.

He was at the same time capable of forming and executing the most daring offensive strategy, and his tactical skill in the handling of troops, whether in wide turning movements, as at Würzburg and Zürich, or in masses, as at Aspern and Wagram, was certainly equal to that of any leader of his time, with only a few exceptions.

The Italian congregation at Zürich was composed principally of refugees from Locarno.

Ochino was not given opportunity to defend himself, and banished from Zürich.

A simple nomenclature system was introduced in 1978 by Angst, J., et al., to classify more easily individuals ' affectedness within the spectrum, following a clinical study by the Psychiatric University Clinic of Zürich.

A meeting chaired by Charles A. Phillips was held at the Pentagon on May 28 and 29 of 1959 ( exactly one year after the Zürich ALGOL 58 meeting ); there it was decided to set up three committees: short, intermediate and long range ( the last one was never actually formed ).

Fichte then worked as a private tutor in Zürich for two years, which was a time of great contentment for him.

In October 1793, he was married at Zürich, where he remained the rest of the year.

* The expression of the " Gnomes of Zürich ", Swiss bankers pictured as diminutive creatures hoarding gold in subterranean vaults, was coined in 1956 by Harold Wilson and gained currency in the 1960s ( OED notes the New Statesman issue of 27 November 1964 as earliest attestation ).

Geneva was ranked as the world's thirteenth most important financial centre for competitiveness by the Global Financial Centres Index, ahead of Frankfurt, and third in Europe after London and Zürich.

He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University.

He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich in Switzerland and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University carrying on as Stanford Professor Emeritus the rest of his life and career.

In 1897, the first International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Zürich.

In many ways his work was more in tune with Zürich Dada's championing of performance and abstract art than Berlin Dada's agit-prop approach, and indeed examples of his work were published in the last Zürich dada publication, der Zeltweg, November 1919, alongside the work of Arp and Sophie Tauber.

The first Pascal compiler was designed in Zürich for the CDC 6000 series mainframe computer family.

James Franck, the director of the institute reported the incident to his colleague Pauli in Zürich with the humorous remark that at least this time Pauli was innocent.

The outward motive was an invitation to lecture in Zürich, but the real reason was the wish to escape the post-war chaos and take up his work on the Duino Elegies once again.

In line with this initiative, the Dubai International Financial Centre was announced, offering 55. 5 % foreign ownership, no withholding tax, freehold land and office space and a tailor-made financial regulatory system with laws taken from best practice in other leading financial centres like New York, London, Zürich and Singapore.

On that same day, Blaurock was severely beaten and permanently expelled from Zürich.

The other members of the confederation expelled Zürich from the confederation in 1440 and declared war.

In 1959 he earned a degree in Electronics Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich ( ETH Zürich ).

* January 27 – Canadian caper: Six United States diplomats, posing as Canadians, manage to escape from Tehran, Iran as they board a flight to Zürich, Switzerland.

* September 6 – Dawson's Field hijackings, The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacks 4 passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich.

* Celtic Frost a metal band from Zürich, Switzerland

In the same year he was wounded and discharged from the army and went to Zürich and joined the Dada movement.

Schreiber transferred $ 500, 000 from " Frankfurt " to an account in Zürich code-named " Britan " on July 26, 1993 and used these funds to make the three cash payments to Mulroney in 1993 and 1994.

Guided tours of various lengths start from Schloss Laufen on the Zürich side of the falls-a youth hostel is also located in Schloss Laufen.

The Dutch term specifically refers to the wave of disorderly attacks in the summer of 1566 that spread rapidly through the Low Countries from south to north, but similar outbreaks of iconoclasm took place in other parts of Europe, especially in Switzerland and the Holy Roman Empire in the period between 1522 and 1566, notably Zürich ( in 1523 ), Copenhagen ( 1530 ), Münster ( 1534 ), Geneva ( 1535 ), and Augsburg ( 1537 ).

* On 6 September 1970, the PFLP ( including Leila Khaled ) hijacked four passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich, and failed in an attempt to hijack an El Al aircraft which landed safely in London after one hijacker was killed and the other overpowered ; and on 9 September 1970, hijacked a BOAC flight from Bahrain to London via Beirut.

He befriended a number of English exiles, but had himself in 1556 to accept an offer of the chair of Hebrew at Zürich owing to his increased alienation from Lutheranism.

The abbot became an ally of several members of the Swiss Confederation ( Zürich, Lucerne, Schwyz and Glarus ) in 1451.

* May 1 – Zürich joins the Swiss Confederation.

Nevertheless, Appenzell was forced to cede the governing protectorship of the Valley to the warring powers — the Abbey and the four cantons of Glarus, Lucerne, Schwyz and Zürich — bringing the bailiwick into the ambit of the Old Swiss Confederation as a Gemeine Herrschaft ( condominium ).

However, in 1451 the abbey became an ally of Zürich, Lucerne, Schwyz and Glarus who were all members of the Confederation.

After that he served as a representative on the council of the Canton of Zürich, and was also frequently called upon as an ambassador for Zürich to meetings of the Swiss Confederation.

When Bremgarten refused the offer to join the Confederation freely, it became involved in the 1443 Old Zürich War, in which it was besieged and captured.

* International Federation of Christian Trade Unions ( IFCTO ), in The Hague in 1920 ( which was preceded by the International Secretariat of Christian Trade Unions founded in Zürich in 1908, led through the World Confederation of Labour ( WCL ) to today's International Trade Union Confederation ( ITUC ));

Returning to Zurich in 1830, he threw himself with ardour into the political strife which was at the time unsettling all the cantons of the Confederation, and in this year published Über die Verfassung der Stadt Zürich ( On the Constitution of the City of Zurich ).

Zürich then ( as now ) was the chief literary centre of the Confederation.

In the vernacular, too, are the earliest descriptions of the Confederation, those by Albert von Bonstetten of Einsiedeln ( 1479 ) and by Conrad Turst of Zürich ( 1496 ), to whom also we owe the first map of the country ( 1495 – 1497 ).

The extinction of the main line of the counts of Toggenburg ( 1436 ) led to the Old Zürich War ( 1440 – 46 ) ultimately resulting in the temporary expulsion of Zürich from the Swiss confederacy.