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- In 1501 Basel was admitted into the Swiss Confederation.
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The associated cities of Basel and Schaffhausen joined the confederacy as a result of that conflict, and Appenzell followed suit in 1513 as the thirteenth member. The federation of thirteen cantons ( Dreizehn Orte) constituted the Old Swiss Confederacy until its demise in 1798.
Apr 21, 2024 · In 1501 Basel was admitted into the Swiss Confederation. With the Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus teaching at the university (1521–29), the city became a center of humanism and of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland.
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Napoleon's Act of Mediation in 1803 restored the status of Switzerland as a Confederation, and after the end of the Napoleonic period, the Swiss Confederation underwent a period of turmoil culminating in a brief civil war in 1847 and the creation of a federal constitution in 1848.
In September 1499, a peace agreement was concluded at Basel that effectively established a de facto independence of the confederation from the empire, although it continued nominally to be part of the Holy Roman Empire until after the Thirty Years' War and was not included into the system of imperial circles in 1500.
After the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), Mayor Johann Rudolf, from Basel, takes part in the Peace Congress of Münster and Osnabrück in Westphalia and succeeds in getting absolute sovereignty for the Swiss Confederation from the German Empire.
TimelineEventAround 120 B.C.Celtic settlement on the banks of the ...Around 50 B.C.Raurica settlement on the hill where the ...44 or 43 B.C.Foundation of the Roman settlement ...374 A.D.The name of Basel (Basilia) is first ...Jun 30, 2020 · The history can be divided into two major periods: before and after 1848, the year when the loose confederacy of cantons or “small states” became a federal state. But when exactly did this...
Switzerland - Alps, Confederation, Cantons: Switzerland’s then biggest town, Basel, became a cultural centre as a result of the Council of Basel (1431–49), the foundation of its university (1460), and its printing industry, which attracted famed Renaissance scholar Desiderius Erasmus, whose Christian philosophy became the heart of humanism ...
