Geographical Location - Switzerland

  1. Austro-Swiss Wars
  2. Avalanches in the Alps Lead to Snow-Management Programs
  3. Battle of Granson
  4. Battle of Laupen
  5. Battle of Morat
  6. Bednorz and Müller Discover a High-Temperature Superconductor
  7. Berg’s Lulu Opens in Zurich
  8. Bern Conference Prohibits Night Work for Women
  9. Celtic Hill Forts Are Replaced by Oppida
  10. Cerletti and Bini Develop Electroconvulsive Therapy for Treating Schizophrenia
  11. Council of Constance
  12. The Dada Movement Emerges at the Cabaret Voltaire
  13. Einstein Develops His Theory of the Photoelectric Effect
  14. Einstein Publishes His Special Theory of Relativity
  15. Elimination of Secret Swiss Bank Accounts Ends a Myth
  16. First Diesel Locomotive Is Tested
  17. First Nonstop Around-the-World Balloon Trip Is Completed
  18. French Revolutionary Wars
  19. German Civil War of 1314-1325
  20. Gruentzig Uses Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty, via a Balloon Catheter, to Unclog Diseased Arteries
  21. The Gulag Archipelago Exposes Soviet Atrocities
  22. Hofmann Synthesizes the Potent Psychedelic Drug LSD-25
  23. Holy Roman Empire
  24. Jung Publishes Psychology of the Unconscious
  25. Maginot Line
  26. Martyrdom of Jan Hus
  27. Müller and Bednorz Discover Superconductivity at High Temperatures
  28. Müller Discovers That DDT Is a Potent Insecticide
  29. Quarks Are Postulated by Gell-Mann and Zweig
  30. Rilke’s Duino Elegies Depicts Art as a Transcendent Experience
  31. Rohrer and Binnig Invent the Scanning Tunneling Microscope
  32. Schrödinger Proposes Wave-Mechanical Theory of Atom
  33. Solzhenitsyn Is Expelled from the Soviet Union
  34. Swiss Confederation Is Formed
  35. Swiss Victory at Morgarten
  36. Swiss Warehouse Fire Causes Toxic Spill into the Rhine
  37. Velcro Is Patented
  38. Willstätter Discovers the Composition of Chlorophyll
  39. The World Wildlife Fund Is Established