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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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| 1906 |
| | | The Simplon rail tunnel, the longest in the world (20 km), is opened between Switzerland and Italy | |
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| 1907 |
| | | 20-year-old Le Corbusier builds his first house at La Chaux-de-Fonds, in his native Switzerland | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Swiss chemist Jacques Brandenberger patents cellophane, a flexible transparent film made from cellulose | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Carl Jung breaks with Freud and introduces the concept of the collective unconscious | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Albert Einstein formulates the law of photochemical equivalence, a fundamental principle of chemical reactions induced by light | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Charles-Édouard Jeanneret develops Maison Domino, a system of low-cost housing with reinforced concrete columns and precast floors | |
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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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| 1917 April |
| | | The German authorities allow Lenin to travel home from Switzerland through Germany, hoping for Communist disruption of the Russian war effort | |
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