2012 in Switzerland

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2012 in Switzerland

Years

| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014

Events from 2012 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
• January 13-15-2012 International Bernese Ladies Cup is in play

February[]

March[]

• March 13-Sierre coach crash, kills 28 of 52
• March 19:Saint Joseph's Day
• March 29:Good Friday
• March 31:Easter Day
• March 31-April 8-2012 World Men's Curling Championship is held in Basel

April[]

• April 1:Easter Monday
• April 8-2012 World Men's Curling Championship ends

May[]

• May 1:May Day
• May 9:Ascension Day
• May 19:Pentecost
• May 20:Whit Monday
• May 30:Corpus Christi

June[]

July[]

August[]

• August 1:Swiss National Day
• August 15:Assumption of Mary
• August 30-September 2-2012 Asian Tour, partially held in Switzerland

September[]

• September 8-2012 Asian Tour, partially held in Switzerland, ends
• September 16:Swiss federal fast

October[]

• October 4-October 7-2012 Swiss Cup Basel is in play
• October 22-October 28-2012 Swiss Indoors is in play

November[]

• November 1:All Saints' Day

December[]

• December 8:Feast of the Immaculate Conception
• December 24:Christmas Eve
• December 25:Christmas Day
• December 26:St. Stephen's Day
• December 26-December 31-2012 Spengler Cup was in play
• December 31:New Year's Eve

Awards[]

Establishments[]

• Swiss Space Systems
• 1. Liga Promotion

Deaths[]

• 12 March – Friedhelm Konietzka, 73, German-born Swiss footballer and manager (born 1938)
• 7 July - Leon Schlumpf.^[1]
• 13 September - Otto Stich.^[2]

See also[]

• de:Feiertage in der Schweiz (Public holidays in Switzerland)
• Deaths in 2012
• List of Swiss people
• List of number-one hits of 2012 (Switzerland)
• 2012 Swiss referendums
• Category:2012 in Swiss sport

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