List of wars involving Switzerland
Wars and conflicts involving Switzerland since the creation of the Old Swiss Confederacy include:
Old Swiss Confederacy
Growth (1291–1523)
Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||
15 November 1315 | Battle of Morgarten part of |
Old Swiss Confederacy | Archduchy of Austria |
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9 July 1386 | Battle of Sempach part of |
Old Swiss Confederacy | Archduchy of Austria | Decisive Swiss victory | |
30 June 1422 | Battle of Arbedo | Old Swiss Confederacy | Duchy of Milan | Defeat:
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2 November 1440 | 12 June 1446 | Old Zürich War | Old Swiss Confederacy |
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Swiss Confederation victory |
1474 | 1477 | Burgundian Wars | Old Swiss Confederacy
Duchy of Lorraine
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Franco-Swiss victory | |
January 1499 | September 1499 | Swabian War | Old Swiss Confederacy | Holy Roman Empire | Swiss Confederation victory
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1511 | 1516 | War of the League of Cambrai |
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Defeat
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Reformation (1523–1648)
Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||
1529 | First War of Kappel
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Protestant cantons | Catholic cantons | Unresolved, no actual battles fought | |
1531 | Musso war
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Duchy of Milan | Victory
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1531 | Second War of Kappel
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Catholics: | Protestants: | Catholic cantons victory |
Ancien Régime (1648–1798)
Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||
January 1653 | June 1653 | Swiss peasant war of 1653
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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)
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Catholic victory in First war, Protestant victory in second. |
Napoleonic era and Restoration (1798–1848)
Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||
1798 | 1799 | French Revolutionary Wars | French victory
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1799 | 1802 | War of the Second Coalition |
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French Republican victory |
1802 | Stecklikrieg
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Collapse of the Helvetic Republic, French Swiss Confederation
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1806 | 1807 | War of the Fourth Coalition |
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French victory |
10 April 1809 | 14 October 1809 | War of the Fifth Coalition |
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French victory |
1813 | 1814 | War of the Sixth Coalition |
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Coalition Victory | |
20 March 1815 | 8 July 1815 | War of the Seventh Coalition
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Seventh Coalition:
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Coalition victory | |
6 December 1830 | 6 December 1830 | Freiämtersturm | Freiämtersturm | Freiämtersturm Victory | |
3 November 1847 | 29 November 1847 | Sonderbund War
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Swiss Confederation | Sonderbund | Confederation victory |
Modern era
Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||
1940 | 1945 | Aerial incidents in Switzerland in World War II | Switzerland |
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2003 | 2008 | War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) | Taliban victory |
See also
- Military history of Switzerland
- Swiss Army