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| 1476 |
| | | The Swiss win a decisive victory at Morat over the army of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy | |
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| 1481 |
| | | Civil war between squabbling Swiss cantons is averted by the diplomcy of a hermit, Brother Klaus, at the Convention of Stans | |
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| 1499 |
| | | The Swiss (or Swabian) War ends with the treaty of Basel, bringing effective recognition of Swiss independence from the Habsburg empire | |
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| 1520 |
| | | The German painter Hans Holbein the Younger establishes his own studio in Basel | |
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| 1522 |
| | | Huldreich Zwingli eats sausage in Lent in Zurich, launching the Swiss Reformation | |
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| 1525 |
| | | Conrad Grebel baptises an adult, causing outrage in Protestant Zurich | |
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| 1531 |
| | | Zwingli is killed at Kappel in a battle between Protestant and Catholic cantons | |
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| 1541 |
| | | Protestant reformer John Calvin settles in Geneva and submits the city to a strict Christian rule | |
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| 1596 |
| | | Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin begins work classifying 6000 plants on a new binomial system of nomenclature | |
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| 1603 |
| | | Geneva wins independence from the duchy of Savoy, in the treaty of St Julien, after repelling a midnight assault on the city | |
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