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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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| 1958 |
| | | The Fire Raisers, by Swiss dramatist Max Frisch, is performed in Zürich | |
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| 1989 |
| | | At CERN, in Geneva, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau build ENQUIRE, a first step towards the future World Wide Web | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN in Geneva, publishes the first formal proposal for the World Wide Web | |
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