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 | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||
15 November 1315 | Battle of Morgarten part of |
Decisive Swiss victory | |||
9 July 1386 | Battle of Sempach part of |
Decisive Swiss victory | |||
2 November 1440 | 12 June 1446 | Old Zürich War | Swiss Confederation victory | ||
1474 | 1477 | Burgundian Wars | Franco-Swiss victory | ||
January 1499 | September 1499 | Swabian War | Swiss Confederation victory
| ||
1511 | 1516 | War of the League of Cambrai | Defeat | ||
Reformation (1523–1648)
Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||
1529 | First War of Kappel
|
Protestant cantons | Catholic cantons | Unresolved, no actual battles fought | |
1531 | Musso war | Three Leagues |
Victory Increased Catholic-Protestant tension, leading to the Second War of Kappel | ||
1531 | Second War of Kappel
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Catholics: |
Protestants: |
]|Catholic cantons victory | |
30 June 1422 | Battle of Arbedo | Defeat:
| |||
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)
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