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Cantons of Switzerland

administrative divisions of the Swiss Confederation

7 dated entries naming Cantons of Switzerland, drawn from 7 separate years between 1420 CE and 1863 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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15th century

  • 1420January 25 – The civil war in Switzerland, which has pitted the cantons of Lucerne, Uri and Unterwalden, supporting rebels in Valais against the Baron of Valais and against the Canton of Bern, is ended by the signing of a treaty at the neutral town of Zug, after mediation by Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy.source

16th century

  • 1501The Swiss cantons of Basel and Schaffhausen join the Old Swiss Confederacy.source
  • 1513December 17 – The Canton of Appenzell becomes a member of the Swiss Confederacy.source
  • 1579September 28 – In Switzerland, a mutual assistance pact was signed at Lucerne between representatives of Roman Catholic cantons by the efforts of the Catholic Bishop of Basel, Jakob Christoph Blarer von Wartensee.source

19th century

  • 1830October – The Regeneration in Switzerland begins: more liberal constitutions are adopted in most cantons.source
  • 1847November 3–29 – Sonderbund War: In Switzerland, General Guillaume-Henri Dufour's Federal Army defeats the Sonderbund (an alliance of seven Catholic cantons) in a civil war, with a total of only 86 deaths.source
  • 1863January 7 – In the Swiss canton of Ticino, the village of Bedretto is partly destroyed and 29 killed by an avalanche.source

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