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Country, Bern
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2024-07-29
Updated On
2025-12-19
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74 Moments
2026
40 dead in Crans-Montana bar fire; “Bengal-type” flares on champagne bottles suspected
Guy Parmelin Becomes President of Switzerland (1 Jan 2026), Succeeding Karin Keller-Sutter
2020
2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne
2017
Swiss voters approve a proposal to phase out nuclear power and switch to renewable energy
2016
St Gotthard Tunnel Opens in Swiss Alps
2014
Swiss voters reject $25 per hour minimum wage
Vote to reinstate immigration quotas in Switzerland
2008
CERN's Large Hadron Collider: Man's Historic Scientific Experiment
2002
Switzerland Joins United Nations
1991
1979
New canton, Jura, now part of Switzerland's administrative divisions.
1978
Coffin and remains of Charlie Chaplin stolen in extortion plot
1971
Historic Grant of Voting Rights to Swiss Women
The World Economic Forum in Davos
1954
Inventor George de Mestral patents Velcro
1939
Swiss Neutrality in WWII
Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head Swiss Army
1938
Creation of LSD by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann
Introducing Nescafé in Switzerland
1928
1920
1919
1907
1882
Gotthard railway tunnel link for all of Switzerland
1874
Formation of World Postal Union in Bern
1863
Henry Dunant Founding the Red Cross in Geneva
1858
Historic First Ascent of Eiger in Bernese Alps
1848
Evolution into a Federal State
1845
The Sonderbund Defeated by Swiss Cantons