1232: In one or both qualities the cadet or Laufenburg line, to which the family estates in the Forest districts round the Lake of Lucerne had fallen on the division of the inheritance in 1232, seem to have exercised their legal rights in a harsh manner. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1240: But in 1240 the free community of Schwyz obtained from the emperor Frederick II. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1240: The free men of Schwyz obtained protection from the emperor, and in 1244 we hear of the castle of New Habsburg, built by the Habsburgs on a promontory jutting out into the lake not far The League P y 1 g of 1291. from Lucerne, with the object of enforcing their real or pretended rights. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1245: At the Council of Lyons in 1245, the head of the cadet line of Habsburg sided with the pope, some of the men of the Forest districts should rally round the emperor. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

April 16, 1291: On the 16th of April 1291 Rudolph bought from the abbey of Murbach in Alsace (of which he was " advocate ") all its rights over the town of Lucerne and the abbey estates in Unterwalden. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1291: In the struggle for the Empire, which extended over the years following the conclusion of the League of 1291, we find that the Confederates supported without exception the anti-Habsburg candidate. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1304: In Unterwalden we find that in 1304 the two valleys were joined together under a common administrator (the local deputy of the count) - a great step forward to permanent union. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

October 12, 1315: On the 16th of October 12 9 1 Uri and Schwyz allied themselves 1315. with Zurich, and joined the general rising in Swabia against Albert, the new head of the house of Habsburg. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

November 15, 1315: On the 15th of November 1315, Leopold with from 15,000 to 20,000 men moved forward along the shore of the Lake of Aegeri, intending to assail the town of Schwyz by climbing the slopes of Morgarten above the south-eastern end of the lake. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

December 9, 1315: On the 9th of December 1315 representatives of the victorious highlanders met at Brunnen, on the Lake of Lucerne, not far from Schwyz, and renewed the Everlasting League of 1291. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1351: Though technically within her rights according to the terms on which she had joined the League in 1351, this act of Zurich caused the greatest irritation in the Confederation, and civil war at once broke out, especially when the Habsburg emperor had been solemnly received and acknowledged in Zurich. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1352: The immediate occasion of the union of these two districts was the war begun by the Austrian duke against Zurich, which was ended by the Brandenburg peace of 1352, by which Glarus and Zug were to be restored to the Habsburgs, who also regained their rights over Lucerne. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1353: By 1353 the three original cantons had joined with the cantons of Glarus and Zug and the Lucerne, Zürich and Bern city states to form the "Old Confederacy" of eight states that existed until the end of the 15th century. - Switzerland, Wikipedia.

1356: These temporary losses and the treaty made by Brun of Zurich with Austria in 1356 were, however, far outweighed by the entrance into the League in 1353 of the famous town of Bern, which, founded in 1191 by Berthold V. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1403: Already in 1403 Uri and Obwalden had taken advantage of a quarrel with the duke of Milan as to custom dues at the market of Varese to occupy the long narrow upper Ticino valley on the south of the pass called the Val Leventina; in 1411 the men of the same two lands, exasperated by the insults of the local lords, called on the other members of the League, and all jointly (except Bern) occupied the Val d'Ossola, on the south side of the Simplon Pass. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1443: The Zurich troops were completely defeated at St Jakob on the Sihl, close under the walls of the city, Stussi himself being slain. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1450: The first and third of these became allied in 1450, but the formal union of the three dates only from 1524, as documentary proof is wanting of the alleged meeting at Vazerol in 1471, though practically before 1524 they had very much in common. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1461: Hence in 1461 Sigismund had to give up his claims on those lands and renew the peace for fifteen years, while in 1467 he sold Wintherthur to Zurich. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

August 13, 1470: Anxious to secure their neutrality in case of his war with Charles, he made a treaty with them on the 13th of August 1470 to this effect. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

January 5, 1477: Charles tried in vain to raise a third army; Rene recovered Lorraine, and on the 5th of January 1477, under the walls of Nancy, Charles's wide-reaching plans were ended by his defeat and death, many Swiss being with Rene's troops. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1495: In his attempt to reorganize the Empire, erected in 1495 at Worms an imperial chamber which had jurisdiction in all disputes between members of the Empire, the Confederates were very unwilling to obey it - partly because they could maintain peace at home by their own authority, and partly because it interfered with their practical independence. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1499: The Swiss had practically renounced their allegiance to the emperor, the temporal chief of the world according to medieval theory; and in the 6th century a great number of them did the same by the world's spiritual u chief, the pope. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1499: The Swiss victory in the Swabian War against the Swabian League of Emperor Maximilian I in 1499 amounted to de facto independence within the Holy Roman Empire. - Switzerland, Wikipedia.

September 22, 1499: But, both sides being exhausted, peace was made at Basel on the 22nd of September 1499. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1512: He bitterly opposed the French alliance and the pension and mercenary system, for he had seen its evils with his own eyes when serving as chaplain with the troops in the Milanese in 1512 and 1515. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1528: Bern joined the union formed in December 1527 in favour of religious freedom by Zurich and Constance (Cliristliches Burgrecht), and her example was followed by Schaffhausen, St Gall, Basel, Bienne and Muhlhausen (1528-1529). - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

February, 1529: This attempt virtually to break up the League was met in February 1529 by the offensive and defensive alliance made with King Ferdinand of Hungary (brother of the emperor) by the three Forest districts, with Lucerne and Zug, followed (April 1529) by the " Christliche Vereinigung," or union between these five members of the League. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

October, 1529: He tried to make an alliance with the Protestants in Germany, but failed at the meeting at Marburg (October 1529) to come to an agreement with Luther on the subject of the Eucharist, and the division between the Swiss and the German Reformations was stereotyped. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

October 11, 1531: Near Kappel, on the 11th of October 1531, the Zurich vanguard under Goldli was (perhaps owing to his treachery) surprised, and despite reinforcements the men of Zurich were beaten, among the slain being Zwingli himself. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1535: The first Protestant French translation of the Bible was issued at Neuchatel in 1535, its principal authors being Pierre Robert (nicknamed Olivetan) and Pierre de Vingle. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1570: 1570) who wrote the Chroniques de Geneve that extend down to 1530 and were continued to 1562 by Michel Roset (d. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1649: It was only in 1649 and 1652 that the Austrian rights in the Prattigau were finally bought up by the League of the Ten Jurisdictions, which thus gained its freedom. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1790: The Helvetian Club, E the French founded at Paris in 1790 by several exiled Vaudois and Fribourgers, was the centre from which the new ideas were spread in the western part of the Confederation, and risings directed or stirred up. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1798: This system was a modified revival of the state of things that had prevailed from 1798 to 1803, and was an imitation of the political changes that had taken place in the cantonal constitutions after 1830. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1900: The relative importance of the Swiss industries concerned with the land is best shown by the census taken in 1900 as to the occupations of the inhabitants. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1900: The relative importance of the Swiss industries concerned with the land is best shown by the census taken in 1900 as to the occupations of the inhabitants. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1900: At the beginning of 1900 the suspicion felt as to the insurance proposals elaborated by the Federal authorities was so keen that a popular demand for a popular vote was signed by 117,000 Swiss citizens, the legal minimum being only 30,000: they were rejected (May 20, 1900) on a popular vote by a nearly two to one majority. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1902: By an amendment to the Federal Constitution adopted in 1902 the Confederation is empowered to make grants in aid in the case of primary schools, while a Federal law of 1903, regulating such grants to be appropriated solely to certain specified purposes, provides that the term " primary schools " shall include continuation schools ii attendance is compulsory. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1902: By an amendment to the Federal Constitution adopted in 1902 the Confederation is empowered to make grants in aid in the case of primary schools, while a Federal law of 1903, regulating such grants to be appropriated solely to certain specified purposes, provides that the term " primary schools " shall include continuation schools ii attendance is compulsory. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1903: By the law of 1903 the quota of the Federal subvention was fixed at sixpence per head of the resident population of each canton, but in the case of 62 cantons (the poorer ones) an extra twopence was added. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1903: By the law of 1903 the quota of the Federal subvention was fixed at sixpence per head of the resident population of each canton, but in the case of 62 cantons (the poorer ones) an extra twopence was added. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

1907: The earliest known monument of this interesting survival was discovered in 1907, and consists of a few lines, in an early form of the Romonsch dialect, of interlinear translation (with the original Latin text) of a sermon attributed to St Augustine. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

December 10, 1907: Drafts carefully prepared by commissions of specialists were slowly considered during nearly two years by the two houses of the Federal parliament, which finally adopted the civil code on the 10th of December 1907, and it was expected that by 1912 both a complete Federal civil code and a complete Federal criminal code would come into operation. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

December 10, 1907: Drafts carefully prepared by commissions of specialists were slowly considered during nearly two years by the two houses of the Federal parliament, which finally adopted the civil code on the 10th of December 1907, and it was expected that by 1912 both a complete Federal civil code and a complete Federal criminal code would come into operation. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

December, 1907: The preparation of the Federal civil and criminal codes has progressed quietly, drafts being framed by experts and then submitted for criticism to special commissions and public opinion, but finally the civil code was adopted by the Federal Assembly in December 1907. - Switzerland, 1911encyclopedia.

September 19, 1921: After studying in Switzerland and Luxembourg, he was ordained to the priesthood on September 19, 1925. - José Clemente Maurer, Wikipedia.

1942: Concessions reached a peak after a crucial rail link through Vichy France was severed in 1942, leaving Switzerland completely surrounded by the Axis. - Switzerland, Wikipedia.

September 7, 1980: It was recorded at Sunrise Studio in Kirchberg, Switzerland between 24 August and 7 September 1980, and was first released in 1981. - The World as It Is Today, Wikipedia.

September 29, 1986: September 29, 1986 Public House - Zurich Switzerland - European Tour 1986, Wikipedia.

April 18, 1999: The Swiss population and the cantons voted in favour of a completely revised federal constitution. - Switzerland, Wikipedia.

November 12, 2005: The most recent game between the two nations occurred on neutral ground in Geneva, Switzerland on 12 November 2005 when the two teams, having both already qualified for the following year's World Cup, met in a friendly. - Argentina and England football rivalry, Wikipedia.

2007: In the 2007 Federal Council elections the seven seats in the Federal Council were distributed as follows: - Switzerland, Wikipedia.

September 30, 2008: First, as part of the inaugural Victoria Cup being held in Switzerland, the Rangers played an exhibition game against SC Bern on September 30, and then the main game against the 2008 European Champions Metallurg Magnitogorsk on October 1 (the first game between a Russian club and an NHL team since 1991). - 2008–09 New York Rangers season, Wikipedia.

December 21, 2008: The annual award will be presented for the first time during the FIFA World Player of the Year gala on December 21 in Switzerland. - FIFA Ferenc Puskás Award, Wikipedia.

September 28, 2009: Roman Polanski officially challenges his proposed extradition from Switzerland to the United States to face child sexual abuse charges stemming from a 1977 incident. - September 2009, Wikipedia.

November 29, 2009: Voters in Switzerland approve a referendum to ban the construction of new minarets in the country. - November 2009, Wikipedia.

December 18, 2009: The draw for the round of 32 and round of 16 was held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland on 18 December 2009 by UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino and UEFA Director of Competitions Giorgio Marchetti. - 2009–10 UEFA Europa League, Wikipedia.