Under the influence of the revolutions sweeping Europe, a unified Swiss Confederation is formed, ending the informal relationship between autocratic principalities that had loosely tied the region together since 1798.  (By Brian Bockelman)
Source Citation
              John Powell, ed., Chronology of European History, 15,000 B.C. to 1996 (Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1997), II, 857-59.
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