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Wars and conflicts involving Switzerland since the creation of the Old Swiss Confederacy include:
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Wars and conflicts involving Switzerland since the creation of the Old Swiss Confederacy include:
| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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| Allies | Enemies | ||||
| 15 November 1315 | Battle of Morgarten part of |  Old Swiss Confederacy |  Archduchy of Austria |
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| 9 July 1386 | Battle of Sempach part of | Old Swiss Confederacy | Archduchy of Austria | Decisive Swiss victory | |
| 30 June 1422 | Battle of Arbedo | Old Swiss Confederacy |  Duchy of Milan | Defeat:
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| 2 November 1440 | 12 June 1446 | Old Zürich War | Old Swiss Confederacy | Swiss Confederation victory | |
| 1474 | 1477 | Burgundian Wars | Old Swiss Confederacy | Franco-Swiss victory | |
| January 1499 | September 1499 | Swabian War | Old Swiss Confederacy |  Holy Roman Empire | Swiss Confederation victory
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| 1511 | 1516 | War of the League of Cambrai | Defeat
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| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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| Allies | Enemies | ||||
| 1529 | First War of Kappel
| Protestant cantons | Catholic cantons | Unresolved, no actual battles fought | |
| 1531 | Musso war |
| Duchy of Milan | Victory
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| 1531 | Second War of Kappel
| Catholics: | Protestants: | Catholic cantons victory | |
| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allies | Enemies | ||||
| January 1653 | June 1653 | Swiss peasant war of 1653
| Peasant rebels | City governments troops | Military victory of the ruling city councils |
| 1656 and 1712 | The First War of Villmergen and the Toggenburg War (or Second War of Villmergen)
| Catholic victory in First war, Protestant victory in second. | |||
| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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| Allies | Enemies | ||||
| 1798 | 1799 | French Revolutionary Wars | French victory
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| 1799 | 1802 | War of the Second Coalition |
| French Republican victory | |
| 1802 | Stecklikrieg
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| Collapse of the Helvetic Republic, French Act of Mediation and creation of the Swiss Confederation | ||
| 1806 | 1807 | War of the Fourth Coalition | French victory | ||
| 10 April 1809 | 14 October 1809 | War of the Fifth Coalition |
| French victory | |
| 1813 | 1814 | War of the Sixth Coalition | Coalition Victory | ||
| 20 March 1815 | 8 July 1815 | War of the Seventh Coalition | Coalition victory | ||
| 6 December 1830 | 6 December 1830 | Freiämtersturm |  | Freiämtersturm | Freiämtersturm Victory |
| 3 November 1847 | 29 November 1847 | Sonderbund War
| Swiss Confederation | Sonderbund | Confederation victory |
| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allies | Enemies | ||||
| 1940 | 1945 | Aerial incidents in Switzerland in World War II |  Switzerland |
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| 1962 | 1966 | Jura Conflict | Switzerland Union of Bernese-Jurassic Patriots (1962-1964) |  Jura Liberation Front (1962-1964) Second Jura Liberation Front (1965-1966) | Swiss Victory
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| 2003 | 2008 | War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) | Taliban victory | ||
Confederacy or confederate may refer to:
A confederation is a political union of sovereign states united for purposes of common action. Usually created by a treaty, confederations of states tend to be established for dealing with critical issues, such as defence, foreign relations, internal trade or currency, with the central government being required to provide support for all its members. Confederalism represents a main form of intergovernmentalism, defined as any form of interaction around states that takes place on the basis of sovereign independence or government.
The Battle of Morgarten took place on 15 November 1315, when troops of Schwyz, supported by their allies of Uri and Unterwalden, ambushed an Austrian army under the command of Leopold I, Duke of Austria on the shores of Lake Ägeri, in the territory of Schwyz.
The national flag of Switzerland displays a white cross in the center of a square red field. The white cross is known as the Swiss cross or the federal cross. Its arms are equilateral, and their ratio of length to width is 7:6. The size of the cross in relation to the field was set in 2017 as 5:8. Alongside the flag of Vatican City, the Swiss flag is one of only two square national flags in the world.
The Battle of Sempach was fought on 9 July 1386, between Leopold III, Duke of Austria and the Old Swiss Confederacy. The battle was a decisive Swiss victory in which Duke Leopold and numerous Austrian nobles died. The victory helped turn the loosely allied Swiss Confederation into a more unified nation and is seen as a turning point in the growth of Switzerland.
The Old Zurich War was a conflict between the canton of Zurich and the other seven cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy over the succession to the Count of Toggenburg.
The Old Swiss Confederacy began as a late medieval alliance between the communities of the valleys in the Central Alps, at the time part of the Holy Roman Empire, to facilitate the management of common interests such as free trade and to ensure the peace along the important trade routes through the mountains. The Hohenstaufen emperors had granted these valleys reichsfrei status in the early 13th century. As reichsfrei regions, the cantons of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden were under the direct authority of the emperor without any intermediate liege lords and thus were largely autonomous.
The Burgundian Wars (1474–1477) were a conflict between the Burgundian State and the Old Swiss Confederacy and its allies. Open war broke out in 1474, and the Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, was defeated three times on the battlefield in the following years and was killed at the Battle of Nancy in 1477. The Duchy of Burgundy and several other Burgundian lands then became part of France, and the Burgundian Netherlands and Franche-Comté were inherited by Charles's daughter, Mary of Burgundy, and eventually passed to the House of Habsburg upon her death because of her marriage to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
The Protestant Reformation in Switzerland was promoted initially by Huldrych Zwingli, who gained the support of the magistrate, Mark Reust, and the population of Zürich in the 1520s. It led to significant changes in civil life and state matters in Zürich and spread to several other cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy. Seven cantons remained Catholic, however, which led to intercantonal wars known as the Wars of Kappel. After the victory of the Catholic cantons in 1531, they proceeded to institute Counter-Reformation policies in some regions. The schism and distrust between the Catholic and the Protestant cantons defined their interior politics and paralysed any common foreign policy until well into the 18th century.
The Second War of Kappel was an armed conflict in 1531 between the Catholic and the Protestant cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy during the Reformation in Switzerland.
The Battle of Morat took place during the Burgundian Wars (1474–1477) that was fought on 22 June 1476 between Charles the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy, and a Swiss Confederate army at Morat (Murten), about 30 kilometres from Bern. The result was a crushing defeat for the Burgundians at the hands of the Swiss.
The Swabian War of 1499 (Alemannic German: Schwoobechrieg, called Schwabenkrieg or Schweizerkrieg in Germany and Engadiner Krieg was the last major armed conflict between the Old Swiss Confederacy and the House of Habsburg. What had begun as a local conflict over the control of the Val Müstair and the Umbrail Pass in the Grisons soon got out of hand when both parties called upon their allies for help; the Habsburgs demanding the support of the Swabian League, while the Federation of the Three Leagues of the Grisons turning to the Swiss Eidgenossenschaft. Hostilities quickly spread from the Grisons through the Rhine valley to Lake Constance and even to the Sundgau in southern Alsace, the westernmost part of the Habsburg region of Further Austria.
The Battle of Dornach was fought on 22 July 1499 between the troops of Emperor Maximilian I and the Old Swiss Confederacy, close to the Swiss village of Dornach. The battle ended in a decisive defeat for Maximilian, and concluded the Swabian War between the Swiss and the Swabian League.
The Battle of Héricourt was fought on 13 November 1474 near Héricourt, Burgundy, as part of the Burgundian Wars. It resulted in victory for the Swiss Confederacy and its allies over the Burgundian State.
The Spanish Road was a military road and trade route in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, linking the Duchy of Milan, the Franche-Comté and the Spanish Netherlands, all of which were at the time territories of the Spanish Empire under the Habsburgs. It was also known as the Road of the Spaniards, Road of the Spanish Tercios, or Sardinian Corridor in Spanish.
The Old Swiss Confederacy, also known as Switzerland or the Swiss Confederacy, was a loose confederation of independent small states, initially within the Holy Roman Empire. It is the precursor of the modern state of Switzerland.
Diplomatic relations between France and Switzerland have traditionally been close, through important economic and cultural exchanges. Switzerland and France, share about 600 km of border and a language.
The historiography of Switzerland is the study of the history of Switzerland.
Events from the year 1444 in France
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