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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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| 1647 |
| | | The Swiss cantons agree on joint action to defend their external borders, in the pact known as the Defensionale of Wyl | |
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| 1836 |
| | | Louis Agassiz builds a hut on the Aar glacier in Switzerland and succeeds in recording gradual movement of the ice | |
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| 1840 |
| | | Swiss scientist Louis Agassiz argues, in his Study on Glaciers, that much of Europe was recently in the grip of an ice age | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz completes his pioneering Poissons Fossiles ('Fossil Fish'), classifying more than 1500 categories | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Swiss humanitarian Henri Dunant publishes A Memory of Solferino, proposing an international agency to cope with the battlefield casualties he has witnessed | |
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| 1863 |
| | | Henri Dunant and others establish the Red Cross in Geneva, as a direct result of the battlefield casualties Dunant has witnessed at Solferino in 1859 | |
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| 1864 |
| | | The first Geneva Convention establishes standards for the treatment of the wounded in war | |
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| 1897 |
| | | The first Zionist Congress is held in Basel with Theodor Herzl in the chair | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The first boat to be powered by a combustion engine, the 125-ton vessel Venoga, is launched on Lake Geneva | |
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