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1803 establishments in Switzerland

  • Act of MediationFrench troops entered Switzerland in 1798 to dismantle the decentralized Old Swiss Confederation. The new Helvetic Republic replaced an aristocratic system…
  • AargauThe Helvetians, a Celtic tribe, controlled the region that is now Aargau as far back as 200 BC. They lived in a landscape defined by the lower course of the…
  • Switzerland in the Napoleonic eraIn 1790, a group of exiled Vaudois and Fribourgers gathered in Paris to form the Helvetian Club. They spread ideas from the French Revolution across western…