2015 Event Swiss criminal investigators charge FIFA President Sepp Blatter with suspected fraud; 14 FIFA officials have already been arrested in the corruption scandal, but Blatter has stated that he has no knowledge of or involvement in wrongdoing 2015 Event Serbian Novak Djokovic beats Swiss Roger Federer to win his second U.S. Men's Open title; a day earlier, Italian Flavia Pennetta beat fellow Italian Roberta Vinci in the U.S. Women's Open to win her first Grand Slam, then announced her retirement 2015 Event The Swiss National Bank has uncapped the Swiss franc against the euro, resulting in a rise in its currency value from 1.20 to 1.04 francs/euro; the bank also reduced interest rates from -.25% to -.75%, increasing costs to investors who store deposits 2014 Event Swiss voters decide against a proposal to limit annual immigration to 0.2% of the population, or to approximately 16,000 people; the current immigration rate is about 80,000 people per year 2014 Event U.S. pharmaceutical company InterMune has been bought by Roche, the Swiss drug manufacturer, for $8.6 million; Roche will pay cash, offering a 38% premium on InterMune's current stock price of approximately $54/share 2014 Event Credit Suisse has pled guilty to criminal charges of assisting U.S. customers in tax fraud and evasion; however, the Swiss government will not allow the bank to cooperate with the U.S. government's request for the names of those customers 2014 Event Twenty-eight years after Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos was ousted, the Philippine government recovers $29 million from Swiss accounts, bringing the total Marcos' secret accounts now recovered and in government hands to $712 million 2013 Event At the U.S. Open, defending men's singles champion Andy Murray is beaten in straight sets by Swiss player, Stanislas Wawrinka 2011 Event The Swiss Government blocks 27 million Swiss francs worth of assets belonging to senior Syrian officials 2010 Event In the Swiss Alps, final breakthrough occurs on the east bore of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, now the world's longest railway tunnel 1997 Event 3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund 1996 Death Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish/Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 99 1995 Death Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer (Raskolnikov), dies at 84 1995 Death Patricia Highsmith, Mary Patricia Plangman, US/Swiss, dies at 74 1994 Death Max Bill, Swiss painter/sculptor/politician, dies at 85 1994 Death G Waller, German/Swiss movie journalist (NRC/Variety), dies at 82 1994 Death Otto F Walther, Swiss publisher/author (Der Stumme), dies at 66 1994 Death Elias Canetti, Swiss Author 1994 Death Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at 59 1993 Death Franz Schnyder, Swiss director (10th of May), dies at 82 1992 Death Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist, dies at 80 1992 Death Hans Zullig, Swiss/German dancer (Green Table), dies 1991 Death Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (moving objects), dies 1991 Death Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect, dies 1991 Death Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann), dies at 79 1990 Death Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss writer (Besuch der alten Dame), dies at 69 1988 Death Hans Urs von Balthasar, Swiss Theologian 1988 Event Avalanche at Klosters, a Swiss Ski resort, nearly kills Prince Charles 1980 Death Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist/theory/educator, dies at 84 1980 Event World's longest auto tunnel, St. Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens 1978 Event Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery 1977 Death Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist/composer, dies at 91 1977 Birthday Michelle Hunziker, Swiss Actress 1977 Death Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/US playwright (Second Wind), dies at 80 1975 Death Walter Linck, Swiss sculptor, dies at 71 1974 Death Frank Martin, Swiss composer (In Terra Fax), dies at 84 1974 Death Fritz Zwicky, Swiss/US astronomer (supernova), dies at 75 1973 Death Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss Scientist 1972 Death Janet Munro, actress (Crawling Eye, Swiss Family Robinson), dies at 38 1971 Event Swiss men accept female suffrage 1970 Event 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland) 1969 Event Males of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage 1969 Birthday Nancy Blogg, Swiss dancer, Josephine 1969 Death Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor/composer, dies at 85 1968 Death Karl Barth, Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), dies at 82 1966 Death Ludwig Binswanger, Swiss psychiatrist (ober Ideenflucht), dies at 84 1966 Death Albert Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor, dies at 64 1966 Death Alberto Giacometti, Swiss Artist 1965 Death Paul H Muller, Swiss chemist (DDT-Nobel 1948), dies at 66 1965 Death Le Corbusier, Charles Jeanneret, Swiss/French architect, dies at 77 1965 Death Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher (Das Sein in der Zeit), dies 1964 Birthday Vreni Schneider, Swiss alpine skier, Olympics-Gold-1988 1963 Death Edmond Flegenheimer, Swiss/French writer (Ecoute Israel), dies 1963 Birthday Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss alpine skier 1988 Olympics gold 1963 Death Jean Felix Piccard, swiss explorer, dies on his 79th birthday 1962 Death Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies at 85 1962 Death Volkmar Andreae, Swiss conductor and composer (Bruckner), dies at 82 1962 Event St. Bernard Tunnel finished, Swiss and Italian workers shake hands 1962 Death Auguste Piccard, Swiss explorer/balloonist, dies at 78 1962 Death Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Holbein in England), dies at 77 1961 Death Cuno Amiet, Swiss painter, dies at 93 1961 Death Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychatrist (ober Alchemie), dies at 85 1961 Death Carl G. Jung, Swiss Psychologist 1961 Death Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist 1961 Death Blaise Cendrars, Swiss/French poet (J'ai tue), dies at 73 1959 Death Ernest Bloch, Swiss/US composer (Macbeth), dies at 78 1959 Death Ernest Bloch, Swiss/US composer (Macbeth), dies at 78 1959 Death Grock, Adrien Wettach, Swiss clown/circus director, dies at 79 1959 Event Swiss males vote against voting rights for women 1958 Birthday Ian Woosnam, born in Oswestry, England, nicknamed 'Woosie', 'Wee Welshman', 'Woosers', Welsh, professional golfer, played first European Tour, 1979, won Swiss Open, 1982, number one in Official World Golf Rankings in 1991, awarded O.B.E. 2007 New Years Honors List 1956 Death Karl L Schmidt, German/Swiss theologist (Urchristentum), dies at 64 1955 Death Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist, dies at 69 1955 Death Arthur Oscar Honegger, Swiss composer (Cantate Noel), dies at 63 1955 Death Arthur Honegger, Swiss Composer 1955 Death Paulus B Barth, Swiss painter/lithographer, dies at 73 1954 Death Werner Bischof, Swiss photographer, dies accidentally at 38 1953 Death Maurice Lugeon, Swiss geologist (nappism), dies at 83 1952 Death Giuseppe Zoppi, Swiss writer (Presento il mio Ticino), dies 1952 Death Jakob Jud, Swiss linguist/etymologist, dies at 70 1951 Event Swiss males votes against female suffrage 1950 Death Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemistry, dies at 73 1950 Event Swiss parliament refuses voting right for women 1949 Birthday Kevin Corcoran, actor, Swiss Family Robinson, Babes in Toyland 1947 Birthday Samuel Schmid, Swiss Politician 1945 Event U.S. 5th army reaches Swiss border 1945 Birthday Dieter Meier, Swiss singer and children book writer, Yello 1945 Death Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru The Tulips), dies at 53 1944 Death Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer (Irrfahrten), dies at 68 1944 Death Fausto Agnelli, Swiss painter, dies at 64 1944 Death Adolph Goldschmidt, German/Swiss art historian, dies at 80 1943 Death Alexandre Yersin, Swiss bacteriologist (bacteria plague), dies at 79 1943 Death Sophie Taeuber/Tauber-Arp, Swiss sculptor, dies at 53 1942 Birthday Michel Tabachnik, Swiss composer and conductor 1941 Death Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Das Gewitter), dies at 46 1941 Death Guy de Pourtales, Swiss/French writer (Pache miraculous), dies 1940 Death Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Gaskugeln), dies at 78 1940 Death Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist and composer, dies at 68 1940 Death Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor (Modern Art), dies at 60 1940 Birthday H. R. Giger, Swiss Artist 1938 Death Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss house painter, dies at 77 1937 Death Maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62 1937 Death Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, dies in crash at 43 1936 Birthday Sepp Blatter, Swiss Leader 1935 Birthday Peter Bichsel, born in Lucerne, Switzerland, writer, journalist, wrote 'And Really Frau Blum Would Very Much Like to Meet the Milkman', member of the Gruppe Olten, a club of Swiss writers 1935 Death Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist, dies at 61 1933 Birthday Richard Ernst, Swiss Scientist 1933 Birthday Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986 1931 Death Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist, dies at 72 1928 Birthday Jean Vanier, Swiss Clergyman 1928 Birthday Hans Kung, Swiss religious theologist 1928 Death Adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer/theorist, dies at 65 1925 Death Felix E Vallotton, Swiss painter/writer (Chaste Susanne), dies at 60 1925 Birthday Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist, movement objects 1924 Birthday Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer 1921 Birthday Geza Anda, Hungarian/Swiss pianist, Mozart/Bartok 1921 Birthday Patricia Highsmith, Plangman, US/Swiss writer, Strangers on a Train 1920 Birthday Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss Scientist 1920 Birthday Armin Schibler, Dutch Swiss composer, Devil in the Winter Palace 1920 Event Swiss men vote against women's suffrage 1919 Death Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), dies 1919 Birthday "Drs P" [Heinz H Polzer], Swiss/Dutch songwriter/singer 1919 Birthday Earnest Haefliger, Swiss tenor, Stadtische Oper Berlin 1919 Birthday Lisa Debeljevic-della Casa, Swiss vocalist 1917 Death Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp merchant/forger, dies 1916 Birthday Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect/writer, Mozart biog 1915 Birthday Pierre Wissmer, Swiss composer, Capitaine Bruno 1915 Birthday Pierre Wissmer, Swiss composer/theory, Capitaine Bruno 1914 Birthday Nello Celio, Swiss president 1914 Birthday Hans Zelig, Swiss dancer 1913 Death Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure, Swiss linguist, dies at 55 1912 Birthday Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist, Arkadia 598-Schubert 1911 Birthday Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer, Stiller, Biedermann 1910 Death J Henri Dunant, Swiss writer/founder (Red Cross, YMCA), dies 1910 Birthday Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer, Romeo and Juliet 1910 Death Edouard Rod, French/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e), dies at 52 1910 Birthday Ulrich Becher, born in Germany, writer, author, playwright, studied law in Berlin, novella series condemned by Nazi party, burned in book-burning fire, received Lifetime Achievement Award from Swiss Schiller Foundation 1908 Birthday Max Bill, Swiss painter/sculptor/politician, Ruban Sans Fin 1908 Birthday Edzard H Schaper, German/Swiss sailor/UP-correspondent/antifascist 1908 Birthday Anita Garvin, actress, Swiss Miss, Blotto, Charlatan, Hats Off 1906 Event Italian King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss president open Simplon tunnel 1906 Birthday Hans Aeschbacher, Swiss sculptor, Venus de Six-Tours 1905 Birthday Felix Bloch, Swiss/U.S. nuclear physicist, Nobel 1952 1905 Birthday Hans Urs von Balthasar, Swiss Theologian 1903 Birthday Walter Linck, Swiss sculptor 1902 Birthday Oscar Cullmann, Swiss theologist, Das Petrusproblem 1901 Birthday Alberto Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor 1901 Death Johanna Spyri, Swiss Novelist 1901 Death Arnold Bocklin, Swiss painter, dies at 73 1900 Birthday Wolfgang Pauli, Swiss/U.S. physicist, Pauli inhibition, Nobel 1945 1899 Birthday Paul H Muller, Swiss chemist, DDT-Nobel 1948 1898 Birthday Fritz Zwicky, Swiss astronomer, super nova 1897 Death Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79 1897 Birthday Tadeusz Reichstein, Swiss chemist, Nobel 1950 1896 Birthday Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/U.S. playwright 1896 Birthday Giuseppe Zoppi, Swiss writer, Il Libro Dell'Alpe 1896 Birthday C Eugene Wegmann, Swiss geologist, Le Jura plisse 1895 Birthday Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet and author, Der Halbe Mensch 1894 Birthday Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, Swiss Air 1893 Death Barthelemy Menn, Swiss graphic artist/painter, dies at 77 1893 Death Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 86 1892 Birthday Arthur Honegger, Swiss Composer 1891 Birthday Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter, Tiptoe Thru the Tulips 1891 Birthday Karl L Schmidt, German/Swiss theologist, Urchristentum 1890 Birthday Ferdinand Gonseth, Swiss mathematician/philosopher 1890 Birthday Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher, Problem des Bosen 1889 Birthday Sophie Taeuber/Tauber-Arp, Swiss sculptor/wife of Hans Arp, Dada 1887 Death Johann J Bachofen, Swiss historic rights, dies at 71 1887 Birthday Blaise Cendrars, Frederic Sauser-Hall, Swiss poet/writer 1886 Birthday Ernst Kurth, Austrian/Swiss musicologist 1886 Birthday Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist, Der Toncharakter 1886 Birthday Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist 1884 Birthday Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer, Bluthochzeit 1884 Death Arnold Henry Guyot, Swiss/US geologist/meteorologist, dies at 76 1882 Birthday Jakob Jud, Swiss linguist/etymologist 1881 Birthday Paulus B Barth, Swiss painter/lithographer 1881 Birthday Guy de Pourtales, Swiss/French writer, Nietzsche in Italy 1881 Death Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59 1881 Birthday Ludwig Binswanger, Swiss psychiatrist, ober Ideenflucht 1881 Birthday Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss Scientist 1880 Birthday Grock, Adrien Wettach, Swiss clown/circus director 1879 Birthday Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor, Bauhaus, 1879 Birthday Fausto Agnelli, Swiss painter 1879 Birthday Volkmar Andreae, Swiss conductor and composer, Tonhalle Orchestra 1879 Birthday Emile Argand, Swiss geologist, Dekbladen Theory 1877 Birthday Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemist 1875 Birthday Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer: Conrad Pilater 1875 Birthday Carl G. Jung, Swiss Psychologist 1875 Birthday Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist 1874 Birthday Edmond Flegenheimer, Swiss/French author, Ecoute Israel 1873 Death J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist, dies 1873 Death Louis Agassiz, Swiss Scientist 1873 Birthday Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist 1872 Birthday Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist and composer 1870 Birthday Maurice Lugeon, Swiss geologist, nappism 1868 Birthday Cuno Amiet, Swiss painter 1866 Birthday Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist, Nobel 1913 1865 Birthday Felix E. Vallotton, Swiss/French painter/writer, Chaste Suzanna 1865 Birthday Charles Bally, Swiss linguist, Le langage et la vie 1864 Death Alexandre Calamo, Swiss painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 53 1863 Birthday Alexandre EJ Yersin, Swiss/French bacteriologist, bacteria plague 1863 Birthday Hermann Kutter, Swiss Christ-social theologist 1862 Birthday Adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer/theorist 1862 Birthday Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics, Emden-polytroop 1860 Birthday Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss painter 1860 Birthday Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss painter 1858 Birthday Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist 1857 Birthday Edouard Rod, France/Swiss writer, Mishel' Tes'e 1850 Death Jean V Constant de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader, dies at 77 1849 Death Albert Gallatin, Swiss Statesman 1847 Death Alexandre Vinet, Swiss Criitic 1845 Death Nicholas T the Saussure, Swiss chemist/botany, dies at 77 1844 Birthday Edouard Naville, Swiss egyptologist 1841 Death Augustin P de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 63 1841 Birthday Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, thyroid specialist, Nobel 1909 1840 Death Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89 1827 Birthday Johanna Spyri, Swiss Novelist 1827 Death Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educator, dies at 81 1827 Death Johann Pestalozzi, Swiss Educator 1824 Birthday Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger 1821 Birthday Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer, Grains de Mil 1821 Birthday Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher 1818 Birthday Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian 1817 Death Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, Swiss Author 1815 Birthday Johann J Bachofen, Swiss judicial historian 1815 Birthday Barthelemy Menn, Swiss graphic artist/painter 1814 Birthday Ludwig Schlafli, Swiss vicar/mathematician 1806 Birthday Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist 1805 Death Belle van Zuylen, Netherlands/Swiss writer (Trois Femmes), dies at 65 1803 Birthday John Augustus Sutter, Swiss / U.S. colonist, New Helvetia, California, Sutter Mill 1801 Death Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher, dies at 59 1799 Death Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist/alpinist, dies at 58 1797 Birthday Alexandre Vinet, Swiss Criitic 1789 Death Jean E Liotard, Turk, Swiss painter (Maria-Theresia), dies 1786 Death Jacobus Bellamy, Zelandus, Dutch/Swiss poet, dies at 28 1783 Death Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician, dies 1782 Birthday Johann Wyss, Swiss folklorist/writer, Swiss Family Robinson 1778 Death Jean Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher 1778 Birthday Augustin P de Candolle, Swiss botanist, Theorie elementaire 1777 Death Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69 1773 Birthday Jean V baron de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader 1771 Birthday Heinrich D Zschokke, Swiss author, Das Goldmacherdorf 1766 Birthday Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, Swiss Author 1761 Birthday Albert Gallatin, Swiss Statesman 1752 Death Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer), dies at 47 1750 Birthday Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician 1746 Birthday Johann Pestalozzi, Swiss Educator 1741 Birthday Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher 1741 Birthday Angelica Kauffmann, Swiss painter 1740 Birthday Belle van Zuylen, Netherlands/Swiss writer, Three Women 1740 Birthday Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist 1728 Birthday Johann G von Zimmermann, Swiss author 1724 Death Johann K Amman, Swiss/Dutch doctor for deaf-mutes, dies at 54 1724 Death Enrico Giovanni Zuccalli, Swiss architect, dies at about 81 1713 Death Giovanni A di Bartlommeo Viscardi, Swiss architect, dies 1709 Event 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC 1705 Death Jean/Jacobus Bernouilli, Swiss mathematician, dies at 50 1704 Birthday Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician, paradox of Cramer 1702 Birthday Jean E Liotard, Turk, Swiss painter, Madame d'Epinay 1669 Birthday Johann K Amman, Swiss/Dutch deaf-mute teacher, Surdus Loquens 1669 Death Abraham Crijnssen, Swiss admiral, conquered Suriname, dies 1667 Death Francesco Borromini, Swiss Architect 1666 Death Cornelis Evertsen the Old, Swiss Vice-Admiral, dies in battle at 55 1659 Birthday Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch Swiss lawyer/navigator, Easter Island 1654 Birthday Jean/Jacobus Bernouilli, Swiss mathematician 1647 Death Joos Banckert, Swiss Admiral (Spanish silver fleet), dies at 48 1645 Birthday Giovanni Adb Viscardi, Swiss architect, baptized 1622 Death Saint Francis de Sales, Swiss Clergyman 1617 Death Johan Evertsen de Captain, Swiss admiral, dies in battle 1610 Birthday Cornelis Evertsen, the Elder, Dutch/Swiss Vice-Admiral 1599 Birthday Francesco Borromini, Swiss Architect 1591 Death Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51 1584 Death Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter/cartoonist/playwright, dies at 44 1575 Death Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss Clergyman 1568 Death Johann Oporinus, Swiss book publisher/publisher, dies at 61 1567 Birthday Saint Francis de Sales, Swiss Clergyman 1552 Birthday Jobst Burgi, Justus Byrgius, Swiss/German mathematician 1552 Birthday Theodore-Agrippa d'Aubigne, French/Swiss historian/poet, Tragiques 1551 Death Joachim Vadianus, Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen, dies at 66 1544 Event Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss 1542 Death Leo Judae, Swiss pastor/church reformer 1541 Death Paracelsus, Swiss Scientist 1541 Death Philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist, dies at 47 1539 Birthday Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist/illustrator 1539 Birthday Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter/cartoonist, Comedia 1531 Event Battle at Kappel: Swiss RC kantons beat protestant 1531 Death Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss church reformer (Zwinglianen), dies 1525 Event Swiss and German mercenaries desert Francois I's army 1516 Event Treaty of Freiburg French/Swiss "eternal" peace treaty 1513 Death Johannes Amerbach, Swiss publisher/printer, dies at about 70 1511 Event Pope Julius II/Germany/Ferdinand of Aragon/Venice/Swiss 1507 Birthday Johann Oporinus [Herbster], Swiss book publisher, Koran 1504 Birthday Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss Clergyman 1493 Birthday Philippus A. Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist, Liber paramixum 1493 Birthday Paracelsus, Swiss Scientist 1489 Death Hans Waldmann, Swiss military/mayor (Zurich), beheaded 1487 Death Nicholas van Flue, Swiss saint/patron of Switzerland, dies 1484 Birthday Joachim Vadianus, von Watt, Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen 1481 Birthday Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer 1388 Event Battle of Nafels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army 1386 Event Battle at Sempach: Swiss beat duke Leopold III of Austria 1315 Event Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society) 1315 Event Battle at Morgarten: Swiss beat duke Leopold I of Austrian 1291 Event Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)
