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| 1916 |
| | The Villa Schwob is completed, the last house designed by Le Corbusier in La Chaux-de-Fonds and one of the first in the world to use reinforced concrete | |
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| 1916 |
| | Tristan Tzara and other artists in Zurich call their new movement Dada (the French for 'hobby-horse', selected at random from a dictionary) | |
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| 1919 |
| | The Swiss theologian Karl Barth publishes his influential Commentary on Romans, taking St Paul's epistle as his text | |
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| 1925 |
| | A Protocol signed in Geneva probibits the use in warfare of poisonous gas and bacteriological weapons | |
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| 1925 |
| | Treaties signed at Locarno, in Switzerland, aim to stabilize and guarantee Germany's borders with France and Belgium | |
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| 1933 |
| | Thomas Mann leaves Germany and moves to Switzerland, where he engages in a steady polemic against the Nazis | |
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| 1941 |
| | Bertolt Brecht's play set in the Thirty Years' War, Mother Courage, has its first performance in Zurich | |
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| 1947 |
| | Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti begins to develop his characteristic style of tense elongated bronze sculpture | |
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| 1956 |
| | The Visit, by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt, has its premiere in Zürich | |
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| 1957 |
| | Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses and Aaron, incomplete at his death, has its premiere in Zurich | |
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