Switzerland in History

• 1291-08-01 Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)
• 1294-06-30 Jews are expelled from Berne, Switzerland

• 1315-11-15 Battle of Morgarten: Swiss beat duke Leopold I of Austria
• 1315-12-09 Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society)
• 1348-09-21 Jews in Zurich, Switzerland, are accused of poisoning wells
• 1349-01-09 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses
• 1349-02-13 Jews are expelled from Burgdorf, Switzerland
• 1349-02-22 Jews are expelled from Zurich, Switzerland
• 1356-10-18 Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys Basel in Switzerland.
• 1386-07-09 Battle at Sempach: Swiss beat duke Leopold III of Austria
• 1388-04-09 Battle of Näfels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army
• 1422-06-30 Battle of Arbedo between the Duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons
• 1427-05-10 Jews are expelled from Bern, Switzerland
• 1428-08-07 Valais witch trial proceedings begin in Valais Canton, Switzerland, first organized witch trials
• 1474-03-30 Duke Sigismund of Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland

• 1499-09-22 Switzerland becomes an independent state
• 1506-01-22 The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrive at the Vatican
• 1513-06-06 Battle of Novara, the War of the League of Cambrai: the Swiss Confederacy defeat the French
• 1516-11-29 Treaty of Freiburg: French/Swiss "eternal" peace treaty
• 1525-01-21 Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union

• 1531-10-11 Battle of Kappel: Swiss Roman Catholic cantons beat protestant forces of Zurich; Huldrych Zwingli Swiss reformation leader is killed
• 1544-04-14 Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss
• 1558-01-09 Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland

• 1618-09-04 "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs, Switzerland, 1,500 killed
• 1648-10-24 Treaty of Westphalia ends The Thirty Years' War in the Holy Roman Empire; Switzerland's independence recognized
• 1709-09-03 1st major group of Swiss German colonists reaches North and South Carolina
• 1718-01-17 Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switzerland; kills 53
• 1798-03-29 Republic of Switzerland forms
• 1806-09-02 A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switzerland, kills 500
• 1809-05-05 Citizenship is denied to Jews of Aargau Canton, Switzerland
• 1815-02-03 World's first commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland
• 1823-07-14 Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives
• 1845-11-29 The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour
• 1848-09-12 Switzerland becomes a Federal state
• 1858-08-11 First ascent of the Eiger in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland
• 1862-05-14 Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph
• 1871-09-17 Mont Cenis railway tunnel in Switzerland opens
• 1874-05-29 Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect
• 1874-10-09 World Postal Union forms in Bern Switzerland
• 1880-02-29 Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland & Italy completed
• 1881-09-11 Triple landslides bury Elm, Switzerland
• 1882-05-20 Gotthard rail tunnel between Switzerland & Italy opens
• 1893-08-20 Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland
• 1900-05-19 World's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) linking Italy and Switzerland opens
• 1903-09-09 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel in Switzerland inaugurated
• 1905-02-24 Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed
• 1906-05-10 Italian King Victor Emmanuel & Swiss President Ludwig Forrer open Simplon tunnel
• 1906-05-17 Switzerland's Simplon Tunnel open to rail traffic
• 1907-04-12 In Switzerland, parliament passes a new army bill reorganizing the nation's forces into a standing militia, with training required for all males
• 1911-03-19 1st International Women's Day sees over 1 million men and women attend rallies in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. Issues discussed included women's right to vote and to hold public office, the right to work, to vocational training and an end to discrimination on the job.
• 1911-03-30 Lötschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed
• 1915-09-05 Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland
• 1916-02-03 Tristan Tzara publishes the Dada manifesto in Zurich, Switzerland

• 1919-02-03 Socialist conference convenes (Berne, Switzerland)
• 1920-02-08 Swiss men vote against women's suffrage
• 1920-02-13 League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland, allowing Switzerland to rejoin the League
• 1922-01-21 1st slalom ski race run at Murren, Switzerland
• 1923-10-16 John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)
• 1927-02-08 Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
• 1927-04-15 Switzerland & USSR agree to diplomatic relations
• 1928-02-11 II Winter Olympic Games open in St Moritz, Switzerland
• 1928-02-19 II Winter Olympic Games close at St Moritz, Switzerland

• 1931-05-27 Swiss Auguste Piccard and Paul Kipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon from Augsburg, Germany
• 1932-05-03 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London, England to Basel, Switzerland)
• 1932-08-18 Auguste Piccard and Max Cosyns reach 16,201m in a balloon launched from Dübendorf, Switzerland
• 1932-11-09 Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
• 1934-09-17 USSR joins League of Nations (Netherland, Switzerland & Portugal vote no)
• 1935-07-20 Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen
• 1938-04-01 Nescafé introduces their flagship brand in Switzerland

• 1939-09-01 Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization)
• 1939-09-01 Switzerland proclaims neutrality at the outbreak of WWII
• 1940-08-14 Dutch Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland
• 1941-05-13 Willy Lewis' US jazz band performs in Switzerland
• 1943-04-16 Swiss scientist Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD
• 1943-04-19 Bicycle Day - Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time
• 1945-04-28 US 5th army reaches Swiss border

• 1948-01-30 V Winter Olympic Games open in St Moritz, Switzerland
• 1948-02-08 V Winter Olympic Games close at St Moritz, Switzerland
• 1949-01-29 Great Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland recognize Israel
• 1950-06-23 Swiss parliament refuses voting rights for women
• 1950-08-07 Tour de France: Ferdi Kübler becomes first Swiss rider to win Tour; Louison Bobet of France wins mountain classification
• 1951-07-29 38th Tour de France won by Hugo Koblet of Switzerland
• 1951-09-20 Swiss males votes against female suffrage
• 1954-06-15 UEFA (Union des Associations Européennes de Football) is formed in Basel, Switzerland
• 1954-07-04 FIFA World Cup Final, Wankdorf Stadium, Bern, Switzerland: Helmut Rahn scores twice as West Germany beats Hungary, 3-2
• 1955-09-11 Dedication of the first Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, the Bern Switzerland Temple
• 1955-09-13 Swiss inventor George de Mestral is granted a patent for what would become known as Velcro
• 1956-05-24 1st Eurovision Song Contest: Lys Assia for Switzerland wins singing "Refrain" in Lugano
• 1959-02-01 Swiss men vote against voting rights for women
• 1962-04-05 St Bernard Tunnel finished-Swiss/Italians workers shake hands
• 1963-09-04 Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board

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Birthdays 1 - 100 of 487

• 1445-03-16 Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (d. 1510)
• 1484-01-01 Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531)
• 1484-11-29 Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (d. 1551)
• 1484-12-28 Joachim Vadian [Vadianus] Swiss humanist, scholar and protestant reformer, born in St. Gallen, Switzerland (d. 1551)

• 1499-02-10 Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)
• 1504-07-18 Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer, born in Bremgarten, Switzerland (d. 1575)
• 1505-02-05 Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (d. 1572)
• 1507-01-15 Johann Oporinus, Swiss book publisher (Koran), born in Basel (d. 1568)
• 1516-03-26 Conrad Gessner, Swiss physician and naturalist, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1565)
• 1524-09-07 Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologist, born in Baden, Switzerland (d. 1583)
• 1533-08-02 Theodor Zwinger, Swiss physician and scholar, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1588)
• 1539-04-17 Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter (Strasbourg astronomical clock), born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland (d. 1584)
• 1539-06-13 Jost Amman, Swiss cartoonist, graphic artist and illustrator, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1591)
• 1540-10-01 Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman, born in Bern, Switzerland (d. 1617)
• 1552-02-28 Jost Bürgi [Jobst Bürg], Swiss clockmaker and mathematician, born in Lichtensteig, Switzerland (d. 1632)
• 1560-01-17 Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (d. 1624)
• 1576-06-06 Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman, born in Lucca, Italy (d. 1649)
• 1577-06-12 Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (Guldinus theorem), born in Mels, Switzerland (d. 1643)
• 1577-10-01 Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint, born in Sigmaringen, Germany (d. 1622)
• 1593-09-25 Matthew Merian the Elder, Swiss engraver and bookseller, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1650)
• 1610-07-04 Cornelis Evertsen the Elder, Dutch-Swiss vice-admiral, born in Flushing, Netherlands (d. 1666)
• 1620-03-12 Johann Heinrich Hottinger, Swiss philologist and theologian (d. 1667)
• 1623-10-17 Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687)
• 1627-06-13 Fidel Molitor, Swiss composer, born in Wil (d. 1685)
• 1633-07-01 Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian, born in Bäretswil, Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1698)
• 1645-12-27 Giovanni Antonio Viscardi, Swiss architect, baptized in San Vittore, Switzerland (d. 1713)
• 1654-12-27 Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician known for his contributions to calculus, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1705)
• 1655-01-06 Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1705)
• 1657-03-01 Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (reasonable orthodoxy), born in Basel, Swiss Confederacy (d. 1740)
• 1661-11-15 Christoph von Graffenried, British peer from Switzerland who founded New Bern, Carolina, born in Worb Castle, Bern, Switzerland (d. 1743)
• 1667-07-27 Jean Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1748)
• 1669-11-23 Johann K. Amman, Swiss-Dutch deaf-mute teacher (Surdus Loquens), born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland (d. 1724)
• 1672-08-02 Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1733)
• 1687-10-21 Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1759)
• 1693-03-05 Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
• 1694-06-24 Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Genevan legal and political theorist, born in Geneva (d. 1748)
• 1695-02-06 Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician, born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1726)
• 1700-02-08 Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-Swiss mathematician, and physicist (10 time French Award), born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1782)
• 1702-12-22 Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss-French painter, art connoisseur, and dealer (Madame d'Epinay), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1789)
• 1704-07-31 Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1752)

• 1708-10-16 Albrecht von Haller, Swiss experimental physiologist, biologist and author (Acadamy of Science), born in Bern, Switzerland (d. 1777)
• 1710-09-03 Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (first to study freshwater polyps or hydra), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1784)
• 1712-06-28 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, eminent political theorist, and writer whose influential works inspired French Revolution leaders and Romantic academics (Confession), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1778)
• 1713-09-18 Jean Allamand, Swiss-Dutch natural philosopher, born in Lausanne, Switzerland (d. 1787)
• 1716-02-18 Gaspard Fritz, Swiss composer and violinist, born in Geneva (d. 1783)
• 1718-08-11 Sir Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (d. 1791)
• 1720-03-13 Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer, born in Geneva (d. 1793)
• 1720-08-10 Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer of Schauensee, Swiss composer and organist, born in Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 1789)
• 1721-11-22 Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-Canadian cartographer and statesman, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1824)
• 1722-11-30 Théodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler, born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1761)
• 1724-08-27 John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American Continental Congressman, born in St. Gall, Switzerland (d. 1781)
• 1724-12-24 Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician, naturalist, and instructor of non-verbal deaf persons, born in Schaffhausen, Netherlands (d. 1811)
• 1725-03-29 Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder, Swiss composer, born in Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 1765)
• 1728-12-08 Johann Georg von Zimmermann, Swiss philosophical author and physician, born in Brugg, Aargau, Switzerland (d. 1795)

• 1740-02-17 Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Swiss physicist and geologist, born in Conches, Switzerland (d. 1799)
• 1740-10-20 Belle van Zuylen, Dutch-Swiss writer (Three Women), born at Castle Zuylen near Utrecht (d. 1805)
• 1741-10-30 Angelica Kauffmann, Swiss Neoclassical painter, born in Chur, League of God's House (now Switzerland) (d. 1807)
• 1741-11-15 Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss writer, philosopher and founder of physiognomics, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1801)
• 1746-01-12 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educator (Leonard & Gertrude), born in Zurich, Switzerland (d. 1827)
• 1750-04-24 Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1840)
• 1752-09-18 Johann Anton Sulzer, Swiss writer and composer, born in Rheinfelden, Aargau, Switzerland (d. 1828)
• 1761-01-29 Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American politician, Secretary of the Treasury (1801-14), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1849)
• 1771-03-22 Heinrich D. Zschokke, German Swiss author (Das Goldmacherdorf), born in Magdeburg, Prussia (d. 1848)
• 1773-04-22 Jean Victor de Constant Rebecque, Swiss-Dutch army leader, born in Genève, Republic of Geneva (d. 1850)
• 1773-05-26 Hans Georg Nägeli, Swiss composer, born in Wetzikon, Switzerland (d. 1836)
• 1778-02-04 A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (d. 1841)
• 1782-03-04 Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist and writer (Swiss Family Robinson), born in Bern (d. 1830)
• 1791-10-31 Ferdinand Huber, Swiss composer, born in St. Gallen, Switzerland (d. 1863)
• 1791-11-11 Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor, born in Olten, Switzerland (d. 1855)
• 1793-07-23 Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, Swiss composer, born in Arlesheim, Switzerland (d. 1859)
• 1796-02-01 Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (d. 1865)
• 1796-10-23 Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1857)
• 1797-10-04 Jeremias Gotthelf [Albert Bitzius], Swiss writer (The Black Spider), born in Murten, Switzerland (d. 1854)
• 1799-04-12 Henri Druey, Swiss politician and a founding father of constitutional democracy in Switzerland, born in Faoug, Switzerland (d. 1855)
• 1801-05-31 Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1877)
• 1801-10-12 Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss politician, born in Lindau, Germany (d. 1873)
• 1802-02-19 Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1881)
• 1802-04-27 Louis Niedermeyer, composer, born in Nyon, Switzerland (d. 1861)
• 1803-02-15 John Augustus Sutter, Swiss-American immigrant on whose land the California gold rush began (New Helvetia, Sutter Mill), born in Kandern, Baden (d. 1880)
• 1803-07-20 Jakob Zeugheer, Swiss composer, born in Zürich (d. 1865)
• 1805-03-03 Jonas Furrer, Swiss lawyer and politician (first president of the Swiss Confederation), born in Winterthur, Switzerland (d. 1861)
• 1806-10-28 Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, French-Swiss botanist, born in Paris (d. 1893)
• 1807-05-28 Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American naturalist and geologist, born in Haut-Vully, Switzerland (d. 1873)
• 1807-09-28 Arnold Henry Guyot, Swiss-American geologist, geographer and meteorologist, born in Boudevilliers, Switzerland (d. 1884)
• 1810-05-28 Alexandre Calamo, Swiss painter, etcher and lithographer (d. 1864)
• 1811-05-11 Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1893)
• 1811-11-24 Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1890)

• 1815-12-22 Johann Jakob Bachofen, Swiss antiquarian & jurist, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1887)
• 1816-08-03 John E. Smith, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Berne, Switzerland (d. 1897)
• 1817-03-27 Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss botanist (famous for his work on plant cells), born in Kilchberg, Switzerland (d. 1891)
• 1817-07-06 Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and histologist (one of the first to interpret tissue structure in terms of cellular elements), born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1905)
• 1818-05-25 Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1897)
• 1819-02-20 Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882)
• 1819-07-19 Gottfried Keller, German-Swiss poet and novelist, born in Zurich (d. 1890)
• 1821-09-27 Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Swiss writer (Grains de Mil), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1881)
• 1824-04-24 François Fournier, Swiss-French postage stamp forger, born in Croix-de-Rozon, Switzerland (d. 1917)

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• 2006-05-20 Race car driver Jacques Villeneuve (35) weds Johanna Martinez at a civil ceremony in Switzerland

Deaths 1 - 100 of 313

• 1487-03-21 Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint (b. 1417)
• 1489-04-06 Hans Waldmann, Swiss military/mayor (Zurich), beheaded
• 1510-03-10 Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (b. 1445)
• 1513-12-25 Johannes Amerbach, Swiss publisher/printer, dies at about 70
• 1519-08-23 Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot
• 1531-10-11 Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss church reformer (Zwinglianen), dies

• 1542-06-19 Leo Jud[ae], Swiss pastor/church reformer
• 1551-04-06 Joachim Vadian [Vadianus] Swiss humanist, scholar and protestant reformer, dies at 66
• 1552-10-14 Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488)
• 1563-03-28 Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)
• 1565-12-13 Conrad Gessner, Swiss physician and naturalist, dies at 49
• 1568-07-06 Johann Oporinus, Swiss book publisher/publisher, dies at 61
• 1572-02-28 Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505)
• 1575-09-17 Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer, dies at 71
• 1583-12-31 Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologist, dies at 59
• 1584-01-04 Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter (Strasbourg astronomical clock), dies at 44
• 1588-03-10 Theodor Zwinger, Swiss physician and scholar, dies at 54
• 1591-05-17 Jost Amman, Swiss cartoonist, graphic artist and illustrator, dies at 51
• 1617-06-28 Johan Evertsen de Captain, Swiss admiral, dies in battle
• 1617-08-13 Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman, dies at 76
• 1622-04-24 Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint, dies at 44
• 1624-12-05 Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560)
• 1632-01-31 Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)
• 1643-11-03 Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (Guldinus theorem), dies at 66
• 1646-04-10 Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1576)
• 1647-09-12 Joos Banckert, Swiss admiral (Spanish silver fleet), dies at 48
• 1649-10-03 Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman, dies at 73
• 1650-06-19 Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (b. 1593)
• 1666-06-11 Cornelis Evertsen the Elder, Dutch-Swiss vice-admiral, dies in battle at 55
• 1669-06-18 Abraham Crijnssen, Swiss admiral, conquered Suriname, dies
• 1685-10-03 Fidel Molitor, Swiss composer, dies at 58
• 1687-09-28 Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (b. 1623)
• 1691-04-03 Jean Petitot, Swiss enamel painter (b. 1608)
• 1698-07-18 Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian, dies at 65
• 1705-08-16 Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician known for his contributions to calculus, dies at 50
• 1713-09-09 Giovanni Antonio Viscardi, Swiss architect, dies at 67
• 1724-03-08 Enrico Giovanni Zuccalli, Swiss architect, dies at about 81
• 1724-05-18 Johann K. Amman, Swiss-Dutch deaf-mute teacher (Surdus Loquens),, dies at 54
• 1725-10-11 Hans Herr, Swiss Mennonite bishop, dies at 86
• 1726-07-31 Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
• 1733-06-23 Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar, dies at 60
• 1740-06-01 Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (reasonable orthodoxy), dies at 83
• 1748-01-01 Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician, dies at 80
• 1752-01-04 Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer), dies at 47
• 1754-03-23 Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (b. 1693)
• 1759-11-29 Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1687)
• 1761-04-04 Théodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler, dies at 38
• 1765-01-04 Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder, Swiss composer, dies at 39
• 1765-09-02 Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer (b. 1719)
• 1765-12-16 Peter Frederick Haldimand, Swiss military officer and surveyor
• 1777-12-12 Albrecht von Haller, Swiss experimental physiologist, biologist and author (Acadamy of Science), dies at 69
• 1781-07-23 John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American Continental Congressman, dies at 56
• 1782-03-17 Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-Swiss mathematician, and physicist (10 time French Award), dies at 82
• 1783-03-23 Gaspard Fritz, Swiss composer and violinist, dies at 67

• 1784-05-12 Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (first to study freshwater polyps or hydra), dies at 73
• 1786-03-11 Jacobus Bellamy [Zelandus], Dutch poet, dies at 28
• 1786-10-17 Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)
• 1787-03-02 Jean Allamand, Swiss-Dutch natural philosopher, dies at 73
• 1789-01-02 Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer of Schauensee, Swiss composer and organist, dies at 68
• 1789-06-12 Jean E Liotard [Turk], Swiss painter (Maria-Theresia), dies
• 1791-06-05 Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718)
• 1793-05-20 Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer, dies at 73
• 1799-01-22 Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Swiss physicist, geologist and alpinist, dies at 58
• 1801-01-02 Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss writer, philosopher, founder of physiognomics, dies at 59
• 1805-12-27 Belle van Zuylen, Dutch-Swiss writer (Trois Femmes), dies at 65
• 1811-10-11 Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician, naturalist, and instructor of non-verbal deaf persons, dies at 86
• 1817-07-14 Madame de Staël [Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein], French-Swiss author (De l’Allemagne), dies at 51
• 1825-09-25 Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1879)
• 1827-02-17 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educator (Leonard & Gertrude), dies at 81
• 1828-03-08 Johann Anton Sulzer, Swiss writer and composer, dies at 75
• 1830-03-21 Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folkorist and writer (Swiss Family Robinson), dies at 48
• 1836-12-26 Hans Georg Nägeli, Swiss composer, dies at 63
• 1840-03-28 Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89
• 1841-09-09 Augustin P de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 63
• 1845-04-18 Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, Swiss chemist, dies at 77
• 1850-06-12 Jean Victor de Constant Rebecque, Swiss-Dutch army leader, dies at 77
• 1854-10-22 Jeremias Gotthelf [Albert Bitzius], Swiss writer (The Black Spider), dies at 57
• 1855-02-06 Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor, dies at 63
• 1855-03-29 Henri Druey, Swiss politician and a founding father of constitutional democracy in Switzerland, dies at 55
• 1857-07-19 Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1796)
• 1859-06-18 Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, Swiss composer, dies at 65
• 1861-07-25 Jonas Furrer, Swiss lawyer and politician (first president of the Swiss Confederation), dies at 56
• 1863-01-09 Ferdinand Huber, Swiss composer, dies at 71
• 1864-03-17 Alexandre Calamo, Swiss painter, etcher and lithographer, dies at 53
• 1865-06-15 Jakob Zeugheer, Swiss composer, dies at 61
• 1865-12-01 Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (b. 1796)
• 1873-09-22 Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss politician, dies at 62
• 1873-12-14 Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American naturalist & geologist, dies at 66
• 1876-01-07 Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
• 1879-03-01 Joachim Heer, Swiss politician, dies at 54
• 1880-12-25 Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councillor, dies at 52
• 1881-01-21 Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802)
• 1881-05-11 Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Swiss writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59
• 1882-12-06 Alfred Escher, Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819)
• 1884-02-08 Arnold Henry Guyot, Swiss-American geologist, geographer and meteorologist, dies at 76
• 1887-11-25 Johann J Bachofen, Swiss historic rights, dies at 71

• 1890-07-16 Gottfried Keller, German-Swiss novelist and poet, dies at 70

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