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The story of Switzerland

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A

Aargau, subject land, 186

Adams, Sir F. O., 412

Adolf of Nassau, 131

Æneas Sylvius, 203, 253

Ætius defeated Huns, 45; gave Savoy to Burgundy, 51

Agassiz, 14

Agen, battle of, 20

Agnes of Königsfelden, 141

Alamanni, 39, 46, 47, 49

Albrecht of Habsburg, 113, 120, 131, 132

Alcuin, 64

Allobroges, 21

Allmend, or common land, 48, 126

Alpinus, 37

Alpnach, bay of, 355

Ambühl of Glarus, 176

Amman chosen in Uri, 127

Am Stoss, battle of, 181

Appenzell, 181; admitted as an ally, 182; admitted as a canton, 237

Aquæ (Baden), 35

Aquæ Sextiæ, battle of, 21

Arbedo, engagement at, 188

Arelatisches Reich founded, 73

Arnold of Brescia, reformer, 100, 152

Arnold von Melchthal, 120

Arnulf of Kaernthen, 76

Arth, Battle of, 354

Asylum, Right of, 416, 418

Augusta Rauracorum, 35, 39

Augusta Vindelicorum, 32

"Äusserer Stand," Society, 320

Austria, 143, 146, 166; defeated at Sempach, 172; defeated at Naefels, 177; claims the Forest, 178

Autun, battle of, 55

Avars, the, 76

Avenches, 97, 213; battle at, 368

Aventicum, 14, 34, 39

B

Baden (Zurich), 186

Barbarossa, 96

Basel, 14; treaty of, 236; divided, 387

Bayard, 240

Beccaria, 294

Bellinzona, 188

Bern, founded, 97; defeated at Schosshalde, 158; forms Burgundian Confederation, 159; rules over Hasle, 163; League with Austria, 166; power over house of Kyburg, 166; seizes Habsburg, 186; fortifies Morat, 212; natural bent for rule, 245; governing families of, 320; plundered by French, 351, 353; population, &c., 420

Berchtold V. founds Bern, 97; defeated by Savoy, 98

Bertha, the "Spinning Queen," 74, 86

Bertold I., Duke of Zaeringen, 93

Bertold II., 94

Bertold IV., 96

Beza, 287, 290

Bibracte, battle of, 23

Bituitus, 19

Bockenkrieg, 372

Bodmer, 334, 338

Bonivard, 273

Borromean League, 294

Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan, 293

Bourbaki, General, 417

Breisach, rising at, 205

Breitinger, 334, 336

Brun, Burgomaster of Zurich, 140, 146, 155, 157

Bubenberg, Hans von, 164; Adrian von, 206, 212

Bullinger, Reformer, 268, 296

Bund ob dem See, 181

Burgdorf, 97, 166

Burgundia Transjurans, 73

Burgundy takes West Helvetia, 40; defeated by Huns, 50; defeated by Franks, 55; two kingdoms of, 73; its wars, 200

Burkhard of Alamannia, 74

Burkhard of Chur-Rhætia, 78, 80, 81

C

Cæcina ravages Helvetia, 36

Campo Formio, treaty of, 347

Calvin, 279; his writings, 280; settles at Geneva, 281; banished, 282; founds the Consistory, 283; burns Servetus, 286; his policy, 287; death, 289

Carlomann, 58

Carmagnola, General, 188

Carolinum founded, 67

Catalaunian Plain, great battle on, 45

Catholic League, 387

Catholic Reaction, 291, 294

Central Government, 396

Centralists, the, 366

Chablais, 380, 402

Charlemagne, 59; Emperor of the West, 60; legends concerning, 62; zeal for education, 64

Charles the Bald, 72

Charles the Bold, 200, 205; defeated at Grandson, 211; at Morat, 213; death, 215

Charles IV. of Germany, 141, 143

Chiavenna, 241, 346, 380

Chillon, 109, 274

Christianity, introduction of, 40

Christian League, 264

Codex Manesse, 153

Columban, 57

Commerce, 409

Confederation formed, 119

Conrad I., 77; II., 88; III., 99

Conradin, 114

Constance, siege of, 304

Clairvaux, monk, preaches Crusades, 99

Clovis, king of the Franks, 54

Crusades, 98

D

D'Affry, 372, 376

Davel, Major, 319

"Délices, Les," 326; theatre destroyed, 328

Diesbach, Nicolas von, 206

Divico, 20, 23

Domo d'Ossola, 188

Dornbühl, victory at, 158

Drachenried, engagement at, 355

Drusus, 25, 32

Dufour, General, 393, 401, 415

E

East Frankish realm, 72

Eberhard the "Quarrelsome," 143; of Kyburg, 161

Education, 388, 412

Eidgenossenschaft, the, 118

Eight States League, 139, 166

Einsiedeln, 82, 134

Eishere the Giant, 62

Elizabeth of Habsburg, 133

"Empty Pocket," Frederick the, 181

Ensisheim, peace of, 197

Erlach, Ludwig von, 350

Erlach, Rudolf von, 164

Ernest II. of Swabia, 82

Escalade of Geneva, 302

Eschenbach, 133

Escher, 358, 375

Ewiger Bund, 129

Exports, 410

F

Farel, reformer, 275

Faucigny, 380, 402

"Faustrecht," the, 107

Federal Assembly, 396

Federal Council, 396

Federal Tribunal, 396

Felix Martyr, 42

Fellenberg, educationist, 374

Ferney, 326

Feudalism, 103

Fichte, 338

Fontana, 234

"Foul Peace," the, 175

Franche Comté, 215

Franco-German War, 417

Franks, the, 54

Fraubrunnen, skirmish at, 350

Frederick von Staufen, 93

Frederick I. (Barbarossa), 105

Frederick II., 127, 150

Frederick III., 190

Frederick the "Empty Pocket," 181, 185

Freiburg, 161, 221

French Revolution, 343

Fridolin St., banner of, at Naefels, 177

"Friedel" (Empty Pocket), 185

G

Galba, 25, 35

Gallia Comata, 31

Gall, St., 57, 62, 182, 241, 346

Geneva, 245; "Children" of, 273, 285; besieged by Savoy, 276; occupied by Bernese army, 277; Calvin's rule in, 284; escalade of, 302; Fatio's reforms, 322; admitted into league, 380; Geneva Convention, 415

Geschworne Brief, 155

Gessler, 121, 123

Giornico, victory at, 189

Glarean, scholar, 254

Glarus, 141; 1st Landsgemeinde, 175; defeats Austria, 177; defeated at Rapperswyl, 353

Goethe, 341

Golden League, 294

Gothard, St., pass, 187; tunnel, 412

Götterdämmerung, 50

Gotteshausbund, 184

Grandson, battle of, 208, 211

Graubünden, 184, 234; religious feuds, 305; massacre in, 307; Austrian occupation, 308; independence recovered, 311

Grauholz, conflict at, 351

Gregory VII., Pope, 91

Greifensee, 194, 317

Greyerz, 162, 164

Grey, Lady Jane, 298

Grey League, 184

Guillermins, the, 282

Gümminen, 161

Gundobad of Burgundy, 52

H

Habsburg Castle, 113

Habsburg-Austria, family of, 113

Habsburg-Laufenburg, 113

Habsburg, house of, 113, 114; kings of Germany, 115

Hadrian, Pope, 60, 63

Hadwig, 81

Hærige, the, 48

Hagenback, Peter von, 204, 205

Haller, 334, 336

Hallwyl, Hans von, 212

Harpe, La, 347, 359, 367, 372, 384

Hartmann, 108, 161

Harsthörner, 209

Hatto, Bishop, 66

Heer, Professor, 8

Heierli, 11

Helvetia, 13, 31, 32

Helvetians, 14; government, 17; feuds with Germans, 18; victory over Romans, 20; defeated at Bibracte, 24; made associates by Rome, 25; split into two sections, 36

Helvetic Club, 347

Helvetic Republic, 352

Helvetic Society, the, 340, 342

Henry I., the "City Founder," 80

Henry II. of Germany, 87

Henry III., 88, 90, 105

Henry IV., 91, 93

Henry VII., 134

Héricourt, Siege of, 208

Herodotus, 8

Hertenstein of Lucerne, 213

Hildgard, Princess, Abbess of Zurich, 70

Hirtzel, 339

Hohe Frau von Zurich, 149

Hohenstaufen line, 107; extinction, 114

Hooper, Bishop, 297

"Horned Council," 229

Hotze, 360

Hug, Dr. Arnold, scholar, 416

Huns, 44, 45

Huss, martyr, 198

I

Im Grund, 219

Imports, 410

Initiative, the, 403

Innsbruck, 186

International Postal Union, 415

Italian Wars, 237

J

Jacques, St., battle of, 191, 193, 195

Jenatsch, 307, 309; stabbed, 310

John XXIII., Pope, 185

Judith, 72

Julien, St., treaty of, 274

Juvalta, Anna, 307

K

Kaernthen, Arnulf of, 76

Kappel, first battle, 264; second ditto, 267

"Kappeller, Milchesuppe," 262

Keller, Dr. Ferdinand, 3, 414

Keller, novelist, 154

Keller, poet, 414

Kern, Swiss envoy, 400

Klaus, Bruder, 221

Klingenberg, Henry of, 153

Klopstock, 337, 338

Kloten, 38

Knonau Castle, 186; rising at, 227; Ludwig Meyer von, 340

Knox, 287

Köchly, scholar, 416

Königsfelden, Monastery, 133

Korsakow, 360, 361

Kyburg Manor, 82; counts of, 89; rise of family, 104; fall, 166

L

"Ladle Squires," the, 274

Lake dwellers, 5, 9, 11

Lake dwellings, 3; construction, 5; probable dates, 11; ditto in East Yorkshire, 12

Landammann, installation of, 249

Landenberg, 121

Länder, the, 218

Landsgemeinde, 247

Latin right, 35

Laupen, 97, 163

Lausanne bishopric, 271

Lavater, 340, 359, 361

League of Perpetual Alliance, 119

Lemanic Republic, 349

Lenzburg, counts of, 89; family, 104

Leopold, 135; defeated at Morgarten, 136

Leopold III. of Austria, 168; defeated at Sempach, 172

Letzinen, the, 162

Leventina, 188; rising in, 316

Libertines, 285

Ligue à la Cassette, 316

Linth canal, 375

"Lion of Lucerne," 346

Locarno refugees, 295

"Long Diet," 378

Lorraine, kingdom of, 200

Lothair, 73, 96

Louis Napoleon, 389

Louis Philippe, 389

Louis the Child, 76

Louis the German, 70

Louis the Pious, 71

Louis XI., 195

Louis XIV., 312, 313

Lucerne, 140

Luneville, peace of, 367

Lützelburg, Henry of, 133

Lyons, 32

M

Mæhren, the, 76

Malleolus, savant, 198, 253

Mamelukes, the, 273

Manesse, 142, 153

Manufactures, 410

Marignano, 218, 240

Martel, Charles, 58

Massena, 360, 361

Maximilian, 232

Mayence, diet at, 93

"Mazze," the, 183

Mediation Act, 369

Meilen, 3

Meistersinger, 251

Melchthal, Arnold von, 120

Mermillod, Bishop, 402

Milan, 187, 189, 238

"Milchsuppe," the, 264

Military system, 398

Minnelieder, 153

Misox, 295

Monk of St. Gall, 62

Morat, battle of, 212

Morgarten, battle of, 131, 135; another engagement at, 354

Müller, historian, 124

Murten, see Morat

Mytenstein, the, 121

N

Naefels, battle of, 175

Nancy, battle of, 215

Napoleon and Switzerland, 370

"Natifs," the, 323

"Négatifs," the, 322

Nellenburg, counts of, 89

Neuchâtel, 209; rebels against Prussia, 323; admitted to league, 380; troubles in, 399; Prussia renounces claim to, 402

Neueneck, engagement at, 350

"Nibelungenlied," 51

Nicolas von der Flüe, 219

Nidan, Count of, 164

Nidwalden, 129

Notker, chronicler, 62; Monachus S. Gallensis, 75

Novara, siege of, 239

Noviodunum, 33

O

Obwalden, 129

Ochs, Peter, 347, 352, 358, 367

Octodurum (Martigny), 35

Omer, St., treaty of, 204

Orcitrix, see Orgetorix

Orgetorix, 17; his treason and death, 21

Otho I., 80

Ottokar of Steyermark, 116

Otto of Strassberg, 135; death, 136

Otto von Freysing, 151

P

Papal see, alliance with, 238

Paracelsus, 301

Paris, peace of, 377

Paulus Diaconus, 64

Peasants' revolt, 311

Pepin le Bref, 58

Pestalozzi, 331, 339, 356, 366, 374, 385

Peter Martyr, 295

Peter of Savoy, "Second Charlemagne," 108; Savoy palace, 109; war with Austria, 110; death, III

Pfäffikon Lake, 6

Pfyffer, "Swiss king," 293

Philip of Savoy, III

Pius II., 203

Planta, John von, 305; Rudolf, 307

Polytechnikum at Zurich, 398

Population, 418

Postal Union, the, 415

R

Railways, 410

Rapinat, 364

Rapperswyl, counts of, 104; skirmish at, 156; John of, 156; battle at, 353

Raron, barons of, 182, 183

Rauraci, 14, 33

Rauracian Republic, 345

Reding, 191, 194; advocates Reislaufen, 226

Reding of Schwyz, 353, 359, 367

Referendum, the, 403; of two kinds, 405; its working, 406

Reformation in East Switzerland, 254; in West Switzerland, 267

Regensburg, peace of, 145

Regula Martyr, 40

Reichsfreiheit, the, 126

Reinhard, 376, 379

René of Lorraine, 208, 215

Rengger, 365

Rhætians, 14; campaign of Drusus, 26; joined with East Switzerland, 32; fall of Goths, 55

Rheinfelden manor, 91; battle of, 310

Richard of Cornwall, 109

Robenhausen, 6, 8

Rohan, Duke Henry de, 309, 310

Romans, 20; Bibracte, 23; conquer Valais, 25; Rhætia, 26; policy, 30

Romaunsh dialect, 14, 26

Rotach, 181

Rothenburg, 168

Rotzloch, battle of, 355

Rousseau, 325; birth, 328; writings, 329; "Contrat Social," 331

Rudolf der Alte, 113

Rudolf of Habsburg, 113; elected King of Germany, 115; policy, 116

Rudolf II., 74

Rudolf III., 82, 87

Rudolf IV., 145

Rudolf, "Rector of Burgundy," 91

Rudolf the Guelf, 73

Rudolf the Silent, 113

Rudolf von Erlach, 164

"Rufst du mein Vaterland," 178

Rütli, the oath on, 120, 122

S

Sabaudia (Savoy), 51

Salis, Von, 305

Salodunum (Soleure), 35

Sarnen, the "White Book" of, 124

Savoy, 98; Palace in Strand, 109; defeated at Visp, 182; loses Lower Valais, 208; and Freiburg, 216; and Vaud, 277

"Savoyards," the, 273

Sax-Misox, 183, 188

Schaffhausen, 204, 236

Schauenberg, 350, 355, 360

Scheffel's "Ekkehard," 81

Schindellegi, battle of, 354

Schinner, Matthæus, 238

Schirmverwandte, 180

Schmalkalden wars, 291

Schosshalde, battle of, 158

Schwyz, 119; charter of liberties, 127; joins league, 128; war with Zurich, 190

Sempach, battle of, 166; Winkelried's death, 170

Sequani, the, 41

Servetus, 286

Sforza, Ludovico, 238; Maximilian, 239

Siebner Concordat, 387, 391

Sigismund, 55, 185

Sigmund of Austria, 204

Simplon Road, 376

Socinus, 295

Solernon, Abbott of St. Gall, 76, 77, 80

Solothurn, 159, 221

Sonderbund wars, 392

Soult, Marshal, 361

Staël, Madame de, 332

Stäfa, insurrection in, 346

Stanz, meeting at, 217, 219; covenant of, 221; siege, 355

Stapfer, 365, 370

Staufacher, 120

"Stecklikrieg," the, 368

Steyermark, 116

Strasburg, 203

Strauss, 391

Stuppa, 313

Stüssi, 191, 193

Subject lands, 179

Suwarow, 360, 361

Swabia, 71, 73; John of, 133; wars, 235

Swiss guards massacred, 345

Sylvius, 204

T

Tagsatzung (Diet), 250

Tätwil, Austrian defeat at, 142

Tavelli murdered, 182

Tell, 122, 123

Tell, historian, 301

Tellenplatte, 123

Theiling of Lucerne, 227

Theobald, bishop, 66

Theodoric the Great, 51, 53

"Thermopylæ of Switzerland," 137

Thun, 97

Thurgau, 204

Ticino, 187, 241

Tigurini, the, 14, 22

Tirano, skirmish at, 308

Toggenburg, 93, 190

Torberg, peace of, 146

Toygeni, the, 14

Trémouille, General, 239

Trivulzio, 239, 241

Tschudi, historian, 124, 252

U

Ufenau Island, 192

Ulrichen, battle of, 182

Ulrich of Kyburg, 108

Unitarier, 366

Unterthanen Laender, 180

Unterwalden, 119; divided, 129

Uri, 119; severed from Zurich Abbey, 126; chooses Ammann, 127

Uristier of Uri, 209

Ursus (and Victor) put to death, 42

"Uster, Day of," 385

Uto Castle, 115

V

Valais, 14; joined to Savoy, 32; joins league, 182; rising in, 345

Valangin, Count, 164

Valisians, 14, 25

Valtellina, 241; massacre in, 307; joined to Lombardy, 346; to Austria, 380

Vaud, 216, 269; lost to Savoy, 277

Vazerol, diets at, 184

Vercellæ, battle of, 21

Vercingetorix defeated, 25; death, 29

Verdun, treaty of, 72; ditto, 200

Vespasian, 34

Victor (and Ursus) put to death, 42

Victoriden, the, 55

Vienna Congress, 378

Villemergen, religious strife, 311; second ditto, 316

Vindonissa, 35

Viret, reformer, 276

Visconti, the, 187

Visp, battle of, 182

Vitellius, 37

Vogelinseck, battle of, 181

Volkslieder, the, 251

Voltaire, 325; at Ferney, 326; influence, 327

Voralberg, 190

W

Walchen Romaunsh, 184

Waldmann, 212, 213; his life, 222; policy, 225; conspiracy against him, 227; sentence and death, 228; compromise, 229

Waldshut feud, 204

Waldstätten, the, 3, 120, 140

Walter Fürst von Attinghausen, 120

Wart stabs Albrecht of Habsburg, 133

Wasserkirche (Zurich), 68, 224

Weiss, 349

Wengi, Nicolas von, 268

Werdenberg, counts of, 105, 176, 181; revolts, 316

Werner of Kyburg, 104

Werner Staufacher, 120

Wesen, 175, 177

West Frankish realm, 72

Westphalia, peace of, 311

Wieland, 337

William IV. of Burgundy, 95

Willisan destroyed, 169

Wimmis stormed, 162

Winkelried, 171, 173

Winkelriedstiftung, the, 415

Winterthur, 74, 132

Wyss, Prof. Georg von, historian, 69

Y

Yorkshire, lake settlements in East, 12

Yverdon, 97

Z

Zaeringen, house of, 95, 96; dissolution, 101

Zehngerichte (Bund), 184

Zschokke, novelist, 374, 384, 414

Zug, 142; excluded from league, 145; re-admitted, 146

Zugewandte, 180

Zum Ranft, 219

Zünfte or guilds, 225

Zuricum, 17

Zurich, 60, 66; abbey founded, 70, 75; diets, 90; Reichsvogtei, 94; attacks Winterthur, 132; joins league, defeats Austrians, 142; Lenzburgs and Zaerings, 149; a poet's corner, 155; "Mordnacht," 156; war with Schwyz, 190, 193; gives up Austrian Alliance, 197; revolts against Waldmann, 228; war with Forest, 264; religious refugees, 295; educational pre-eminence, 398; largest Swiss city, 420

"Zurichputsch," 390

Zwingli, 255; birth, 257; called to Zurich, 258; abolishes Reislaufen, 260; establishes National Church, 262; with Zurich army, 264; killed in battle, 267

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