2011 in Switzerland

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Events from 2011 in Switzerland.

Events[]

Public holidays in one or several cantons of Switzerland are marked (¹).

January[]

• January 1: New Year's Day¹
• January 2: Berchtoldstag¹

February[]

March[]

• March 19:Saint Joseph's Day
• March 29:Good Friday
• March 31:Easter Day

April[]

• April 1:Easter Monday

May[]

• May–June-2011 Germany E. coli O104:H4 outbreak affected Switzerland
• May 1:May Day
• May 9:Ascension Day
• May 19:Pentecost
• May 20:Whit Monday
• May 30:Corpus Christi

June[]

• June 16-Convention on Domestic Workers signed, took place in Geneva

July[]

• July 2-Some Swiss tourists were kidnapped in Balochistan
• July 25-July 31-2011 Crédit Agricole Suisse Open Gstaad was in play

August[]

• August-August 2011 stock markets fall affected the Swiss Franc
• August 1:Swiss National Day
• August 15:Assumption of Mary
• August 17-August 21-2011 Basel Summer Ice Hockey was in play

September[]

• September 16:Swiss federal fast

October[]

• October 31-November 6-2011 Swiss Indoors was in play

November[]

• November 1:All Saints' Day
• November 25-27-2011 International ZO Women's Tournament was in play

December[]

• December 8:Feast of the Immaculate Conception
• December 15-December 22-Cyclone Joachim affected Switzerland
• December 24:Christmas Eve
• December 25:Christmas Day
• December 26:St. Stephen's Day
• December 26-December 31-2011 Spengler Cup was in play
• December 31:New Year's Eve

Incumbents[]

Establishments[]

• Anti-PowerPoint Party
• Propulsion Universelle et Recuperation d'Energie
• Swiss Accident Investigation Board

Deaths[]

• Erhard Loretan died climbing in the Alps^[1]
• December 7-Clemens Thoma

See also[]

• de:Feiertage in der Schweiz (Public holidays in Switzerland)
• Deaths in 2011
• List of Swiss people
• List of number-one hits of 2011 (Switzerland)

References[]