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

Growth (1291–1523)

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)

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)

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)

Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents Outcome
Allies Enemies
1798 1799 French Revolutionary Wars
  • Swiss Campaign
Switzerland becomes a battlefield for Revolutionary France

French victory: creation of the Helvetic Republic, a French client state

1799 1802 War of the Second Coalition French Republic

Polish Legions
French client states

Austria

 Russia
 Great Britain (until 1801)
 United Kingdom (from 1801)
French Royalists
Portugal
 Two Sicilies
 Ottoman Empire

French Republic victory
1802 Stecklikrieg
  • Civil war
Centralists

Helvetic Republic

Federalists

Canton of Uri
Canton of Schwyz
Canton of Luzern
Canton of Obwalden
Canton of Nidwalden
Canton of Glarus
City of Zürich
Canton of Bern
Canton of Aargau
Canton of Solothurn
Appenzell Ausserrhoden
Appenzell Innerrhoden

Collapse of the Helvetic Republic, French Act of Mediation and creation of the Swiss Confederation (Napoleonic)
1806 1807 War of the Fourth Coalition First French Empire

French client states

 Prussia
 Russia
 United Kingdom
 Saxony[a]
 Sweden
Sicily
French victory
10 April 1809 14 October 1809 War of the Fifth Coalition First French Empire

French client states

 Austria
  • Tyrol (in rebellion against Bavaria)

 United Kingdom
Sicily
 Sardinia
Black Brunswickers

French victory
1813 1814 War of the Sixth Coalition First French Empire

French client states

 Russia
 Prussia
 Austria
 United Kingdom
 Sweden
Spain
Portugal
Sicily
 Sardinia
Defeat
20 March 1815 8 July 1815 War of the Seventh Coalition Seventh Coalition:

 Austrian Empire
 Russian Empire
 Prussia
 United Kingdom
Hanover
Nassau
Brunswick
 Sweden
 United Netherlands
 Spain
Portugal
 Sardinia
Sicily
Tuscany
Switzerland
French Royalists

First French Empire
Naples
Coalition victory
3 November 1847 29 November 1847 Sonderbund War
  • Civil war
Swiss Confederation Sonderbund Rise of Switzerland as a federal state

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

2003

February 2008 War in Afghanistan See War in Afghanistan See War in Afghanistan Swiss Withdrawal[1] - Conflict Ongoing

See also

References

  1. swissinfo.ch, S. W. I.; Corporation, a branch of the Swiss Broadcasting. "Switzerland ends military mission in Afghanistan". SWI swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
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