Switzerland In Focus - Discover Switzerland: Experience the Best of Switzerland - page 573

1515
After Swiss forces take Milan and Pavia in Italy in 1512, the Swiss are defeated.
1519
Protestant Huldrych Zwingli preaches 'pray and work' in Zürich; the city adopts his re-
form proposals.
1590-1600
Some 300 women in Vaud are captured, tortured and burned alive on charges of witch-
craft.
1847
Civil war between Protestants and Catholics lasts 26 days, leaving 86 dead and 500
wounded.
1863
Horrified by wartime slaughter, Henri Dunant co-founds the International Red Cross in
Geneva.
1918
With a sixth of the population in poverty and 20,000 dead from flu, workers strike.
1940
More than 430,000 troops are mobilised in case of German invasion.
1949
Orson Welles delivers line about the Swiss inventing the cuckoo clock in The Third
Man .
1979
Jura (majority French-speaking Catholics) leaves Bern (German-speaking Protestants)
to become an independent canton.
1990