Switzerland

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In a sense Switzerland's history begins with the Habsburgs.Or more precisely, their desire to have nothing to do with the Habsburgs, and the control the Habsburgs had acquired over the Holy Roman Empire. Initially a collection of three independent cantons within the empire, that independence was canceled when Rudolph I of Habsburg, became Holy Roman Emperor in 1273. In 1291, the three cantons decided to band together and subsequently separated from the Holy Roman Empire altogether.

• Old Confederacy (1291–1523)
• Reformation (1523–1648)
• Ancien Régime (1648–1798)
• Napoleonic Era (1798–1848)
• Switzerland as a federal state (1848–1914)
• World Wars (1914–1945)
• After 1945