The periods of Restoration and Regeneration in Swiss history lasted from 1814 to 1847. "Restoration" is the period of 1814 to 1830, the restoration of the Ancien Régime, reverting the changes imposed
Konkordatsbatzen (with the Swiss cross on the reverse) minted in Berne (1826)
Charles Pictet de Rochemont
The Ustertag meets near Zurich on 22 November 1830.
The Züriputsch: clashes on Zürich Paradeplatz
Sonderbund War
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The Sonderbund War of November 1847 was a civil war in Switzerland, then still a relatively loose confederacy of cantons. It ensued after seven Catholic cantons formed the Sonderbund in 1845 to protec
Restoration and Regeneration in Switzerland
…in armed marches on the cities. This resulted in a conservative backlash in the Catholic cantons in the 1830s, raising the conflict to the point of civil war by 1847. When Napoleon's fall appeared imminent, the Act of Mediation was suspended in late December 1813, and lengthy discussions about future…
The general staff of the federal army: Kurz, Minscher, Enloff, Bontemps, Gerwer, Müller, Ziegler, Bourkhardt, Dufour, Rilliet de Constant, Luvini, Donats, Ochsenbein and Gmür
Swiss Army uniforms of the Sonderbund War
The 2nd Division crosses the Emme river into Littau.
Jean-Ulrich de Salis-Soglio