List of wars involving Switzerland

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This article is an incomplete list of wars and conflicts involving Switzerland, since the creation of the Old Swiss Confederacy.

Old Swiss Confederacy[]

Main article: Battles of the Old Swiss Confederacy

Growth (1291–1523)[]

Main article: Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy
Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents Outcome
Allies Enemies
15 November 1315 Battle of Morgarten

part of

 Switzerland Old Swiss Confederacy Austria Archduchy of Austria Decisive Swiss victory

Pact of Brunnen

9 July 1386 Battle of Sempach

part of

 Switzerland Old Swiss Confederacy Austria Archduchy of Austria Decisive Swiss victory
30 June 1422 Battle of Arbedo Switzerland Old Swiss Confederacy Flag of the Duchy of Milan.png Duchy of Milan Defeat:
  • Temporarily discouraged Swiss expansion in the direction of Lake Maggiore
2 November 1440 12 June 1446 Old Zürich War Switzerland Old Swiss Confederacy Canton of Zürich Imperial City of Zürich

Austria Archduchy of Austria
Arms of France (France Moderne).svg Kingdom of France

Swiss Confederation victory
1474 1477 Burgundian Wars Switzerland Old Swiss Confederacy

Duchy of Lorraine

Burgundy Duchy of Burgundy

 Duchy of Savoy

Franco-Swiss victory
January 1499 September 1499 Swabian War Switzerland Old Swiss Confederacy  Holy Roman Empire
 Swiss Confederation victory

Treaty of Basel (1499):

  • Further independence of the Swiss Confederation from the Holy Roman Empire
1511 1516 War of the League of Cambrai Switzerland Swiss mercenaries

 Papal States
 Spain
 Holy Roman Empire
 England

Flag of the Duchy of Milan (1450).svg Duchy of Milan

  Venice

 France
 Scotland
Ducado de Modena (antes de 1830).svg Duchy of Ferrara

Defeat

Reformation (1523–1648)[]

Main article: Reformation in Switzerland
Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents Outcome
Allies Enemies
1529 First War of Kappel
  • Civil War of religions
 Protestant cantons Catholic cantons Unresolved, no actual battles fought
1531 Musso war Three Leagues

Switzerland Old Swiss Confederacy (Protestant cantons)

Flag of the Duchy of Milan.png Duchy of Milan Victory

Increased Catholic-Protestant tension, leading to the Second War of Kappel

1531 Second War of Kappel
  • Civil War of religions
 Catholics:

Flag of Canton of Uri.svg Uri
Blutfahne.svg Schwyz
Flag of Canton of Zug.svg Zug
Flag of Canton of Lucerne.svg Lucerne
Flag of Canton of Unterwalden.svg Unterwalden

Protestants:

Flag of Canton of Zürich.svg Zürich

Catholic cantons victory

Ancien Régime (1648–1798)[]

Main article: Early Modern Switzerland
Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents Outcome
Allies Enemies
January 1653 June 1653 Swiss peasant war of 1653
  • Civil War
 Peasant rebels City Governments troops Military victory of the ruling city councils
1656 and 1712 The First War of Villmergen and the Toggenburg War (or Second War of Villmergen)
  • Civil Wars of religion
 Wappen Zürich matt.svg Canton of Zürich
Wappen Bern matt.svg Canton of Bern
Wappen Schaffhausen matt.svg Canton of Schaffhausen 		Wappen Luzern matt.svg Canton of Lucerne
Wappen Uri matt.svg Canton of Uri
Wappen Schwyz matt.svg Canton of Schwyz
Wappen Unterwalden alt.svg Unterwalden
Wappen Zug matt.svg Canton of Zug
Freie Ämter Freie Ämter
Rapperswil CoA.svg Rapperswil 		Catholic victory in First war, Protestant victory in second.

Napoleonic Era and Restoration (1798–1848)[]

Main article: Switzerland in the Napoleonic era
Start Finish Name of conflict Belligerents Outcome
Allies Enemies
1798 1799 French Revolutionary Wars French victory
1799 1802 War of the Second Coalition
French Republican victory
1802 Stecklikrieg
  • Civil war
Collapse of the Helvetic Republic, French Act of Mediation and creation of the Swiss Confederation (Napoleonic)
1806 1807 War of the Fourth Coalition
French victory
10 April 1809 14 October 1809 War of the Fifth Coalition
French victory
1813 1814 War of the Sixth Coalition
Coalition Victory
20 March 1815 8 July 1815 War of the Seventh Coalition
Seventh Coalition:
Coalition victory
3 November 1847 29 November 1847 Sonderbund War
  • Civil war
 Swiss Confederation Sonderbund Confederation victory

Modern Era[]

Start Finish Name of conflict Belligerents Outcome
Allies Enemies
1940 1945 Aerial Incidents in Switzerland in World War II Switzerland Switzerland
  • Downing of multiple allied aircraft by Swiss fighters
  • Bombings on multiple towns
  • U.S. Government paid Swiss $4 million and an additional $14.4 million (in 1944/45 dollars)
  • End of allied and German overflights following the end of World War II

2003

February 2008 War in Afghanistan See War in Afghanistan See War in Afghanistan Swiss withdrawal[1] – conflict ongoing

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Switzerland ends military mission in Afghanistan". SWI swissinfo.ch. 23 February 2008. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
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