Events from 1848 in Switzerland. Federal Council (starting from November 16): Ulrich Ochsenbein Jonas Furrer (President) Josef Munzinger Henri Druey Friedrich...
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The revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the springtime of the peoples or the springtime of nations, were a series of revolutions throughout...
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The rise of Switzerland as a federal state began on 12 September 1848, with the creation of a federal constitution in response to a 27-day civil war,...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1848. 1848 (MDCCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting...
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Since 1848 the Swiss Confederation has been a federal republic of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of federation that goes back...
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The German revolutions of 1848–1849 (German: Deutsche Revolution 1848/1849), the opening phase of which was also called the March Revolution (German:...
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elections were held in Switzerland between 1 and 27 October 1848. The Radical Left emerged as the largest group, winning 79 of the 111 seats in the National...
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Weissenbach. The state of Switzerland took its present form with the adoption of the Swiss Federal Constitution in 1848. Switzerland's precursors established...
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Swiss society has changed profoundly since. The 1848 Constitution was one of the few successes of the Europe-wide democratic revolutions of 1848. In Switzerland...
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the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848, with a brief period of centralised government during the Helvetic...
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