List of wars involving Switzerland

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

 Old Swiss Confederacy Archduchy of Austria Decisive Swiss victory

Pact of Brunnen

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:
  • Temporarily discouraged Swiss expansion in the direction of Lake Maggiore
2 November 1440 12 June 1446 Old Zürich War Old Swiss Confederacy Imperial City of Zürich

Archduchy of Austria
Kingdom of France

 Swiss Confederation victory
1474 1477 Burgundian Wars Old Swiss Confederacy

Duchy of Lorraine

 Duchy of Burgundy

 Duchy of Savoy

 Franco-Swiss victory
January 1499 September 1499 Swabian War 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 Swiss mercenaries

 Papal States
 Spain
 Holy Roman Empire
 England

Duchy of Milan

  Venice

 France
 Scotland
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

Old Swiss Confederacy (Protestant cantons)

 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:

Uri
Schwyz
Zug
Lucerne
Unterwalden

 Protestants:

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
 Canton of Zürich
Canton of Bern
Canton of Schaffhausen		 Canton of Lucerne
Canton of Uri
Canton of Schwyz
Unterwalden
Canton of Zug
Freie Ämter
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
  • 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

See also

References
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