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Bern in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Bern in Switzerland. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

122 records23 event labels55 people1850–2020

Historical events in Bern

1850

1 January 1850
President of Switzerland
Henri Druey · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1851

1 January 1851
President of Switzerland
Josef Munzinger · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1852

1 January 1852
President of Switzerland
Jonas Furrer · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1853

1 January 1853
President of Switzerland
Wilhelm Matthias Naeff · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1854

1 January 1854
President of Switzerland
Friedrich Frey-Herosé · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1855

1 January 1855
President of Switzerland
Jonas Furrer · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1856

1 January 1856
President of Switzerland
Jakob Stämpfli · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1857

1 January 1857
President of Switzerland
Constant Fornerod · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1858

1 January 1858
President of Switzerland
Jonas Furrer · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1859

1 January 1859
President of Switzerland
Jakob Stämpfli · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1860

1 January 1860
President of Switzerland
Friedrich Frey-Herosé · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1861

1 January 1861
President of Switzerland
Melchior Josef Martin Knüsel · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1862

1 January 1862
President of Switzerland
Jakob Stämpfli · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1863

1 January 1863
President of Switzerland
Constant Fornerod · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1864

1 January 1864
President of Switzerland
Jakob Dubs · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1865

1 January 1865
President of Switzerland
Karl Schenk · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1866

1 January 1866
President of Switzerland
Melchior Josef Martin Knüsel · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1867

1 January 1867
President of Switzerland
Constant Fornerod · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1868

1 January 1868
President of Switzerland
Jakob Dubs · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1869

1 January 1869
President of Switzerland
Emil Welti · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1870

1 January 1870
President of Switzerland
Jakob Dubs · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1871

1 January 1871
President of Switzerland
Karl Schenk · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1872

1 January 1872
President of Switzerland
Emil Welti · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1873

1 January 1873
President of Switzerland
Paul Cérésole · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1874

1 January 1874
President of Switzerland
Karl Schenk · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1875

1 January 1875
President of Switzerland
Johann Jakob Scherer · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1876

1 January 1876
President of Switzerland
Emil Welti · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1877

1 January 1877
President of Switzerland
Joachim Heer · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1878

1 January 1878
President of Switzerland
Karl Schenk · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1879

1 January 1879
President of Switzerland
Bernhard Hammer · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1880

1 January 1880
President of Switzerland
Emil Welti · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1881

1 January 1881
Droz Heads Confederation
Numa Droz · Government of Switzerland

Serves as Switzerland's federal president during 1881.

1 January 1881
President of Switzerland
Numa Droz · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1 January 1881
Swiss Presidency
Numa Droz · Government of Switzerland

Begins his term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1882

1 January 1882
Bavier Leads Federal Council
Simeon Bavier · Government of Switzerland

Bavier serves as Switzerland's federal president during 1882.

1 January 1882
President of Switzerland
Simeon Bavier · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1 January 1882
Swiss Presidency Begins
Simeon Bavier · Government of Switzerland

Begins his term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1883

1 January 1883
President of Switzerland
Louis Ruchonnet · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1884

1 January 1884
President of Switzerland
Emil Welti · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1885

1 January 1885
President of Switzerland
Karl Schenk · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1886

1 January 1886
President of Switzerland
Adolf Deucher · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1887

1 January 1887
President of Switzerland
Numa Droz · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1888

1 January 1888
President of Switzerland
Wilhelm Hertenstein · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1889

1889
President of Switzerland
Bernhard Hammer · Government of Switzerland

Serves as President of the Swiss Confederation throughout 1889 after succeeding Wilhelm Hertenstein in November 1888.

1890

1 January 1890
President of Switzerland
Louis Ruchonnet · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1891

1 January 1891
President of Switzerland
Emil Welti · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1892

1 January 1892
President of Switzerland
Walter Hauser · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1893

1 January 1893
President of Switzerland
Karl Schenk · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1894

1 January 1894
President of Switzerland
Emil Frey · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1895

1 January 1895
President of Switzerland
Josef Zemp · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1896

1 January 1896
President of Switzerland
Adrien Lachenal · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1897

1 January 1897
President of Switzerland
Adolf Deucher · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1898

1 January 1898
President of Switzerland
Eugène Ruffy · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1899

1 January 1899
President of Switzerland
Eduard Müller · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1900

1 January 1900
President of Switzerland
Walter Hauser · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1901

1 January 1901
President of Switzerland
Ernst Brenner · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1902

1902
Statistical Mechanics Paper I
Albert Einstein · Physics

Publishes an early paper developing the kinetic theory of thermal equilibrium using statistical methods.

19 June 1902
Swiss Patent Office Appointment
Albert Einstein · Physics

Appointed Technical Expert, third class, at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern.

1903

1903
Foundations of Thermodynamics
Albert Einstein · Physics

Publishes further work on the foundations of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.

1 January 1903
President of Switzerland
Adolf Deucher · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1904

1904
Radiation Energy Fluctuations
Albert Einstein · Physics

Studies fluctuations in radiation energy, an important precursor to his later quantum work.

1 January 1904
President of Switzerland
Robert Comtesse · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1905

1905
Photoelectric Quantum Explanation
Albert Einstein · Physics

Explains photoelectric emission by proposing that light transfers energy in discrete quanta to electrons.

1 January 1905
President of Switzerland
Marc-Émile Ruchet · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

17 March 1905
Photoelectric Effect Paper Submitted
Albert Einstein · Physics

Sends his light-quantum paper to Annalen der Physik, using quanta to explain the photoelectric effect.

11 May 1905
Brownian Motion Paper Received
Albert Einstein · Physics

Annalen der Physik receives Einstein's paper explaining Brownian motion through molecular collisions.

30 June 1905
Special Relativity
Albert Einstein · Physics

Submits On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, establishing the special theory of relativity.

27 September 1905
Mass-Energy Equivalence
Albert Einstein · Physics

Submits the paper deriving the relation between mass and energy from special relativity.

1906

1906
Light Production and Absorption Paper
Albert Einstein · Physics

Publishes work extending the light-quantum hypothesis to the production and absorption of radiation.

1 January 1906
President of Switzerland
Ludwig Forrer · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

8 February 1906
Molecular Dimensions Paper Published
Albert Einstein · Physics

His revised dissertation on molecular dimensions is published in Annalen der Physik.

8 February 1906
Second Brownian Motion Paper Published
Albert Einstein · Physics

Publishes a follow-up analysis refining his theory of Brownian motion.

April 1906
Patent Office Promotion
Albert Einstein · Physics

Promoted to Technical Expert, second class, at the Swiss Patent Office.

1907

1907
Equivalence Principle
Albert Einstein · Physics

Formulates the equivalence principle, a decisive step toward a relativistic theory of gravitation.

1907
Gravitational Redshift
Albert Einstein · Astronomy

Predicts that gravity should shift the frequency of light, later called gravitational redshift.

1907
Quantum Theory of Specific Heat
Albert Einstein · Physics

Applies quantum ideas to the specific heat of solids, an early success of quantum theory.

1 January 1907
President of Switzerland
Eduard Müller · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1908

1908
Privatdozent at Bern
Albert Einstein · Physics

Begins teaching at the University of Bern as a Privatdozent.

1 January 1908
President of Switzerland
Ernst Brenner · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1909

1 January 1909
President of Switzerland
Adolf Deucher · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1910

1 January 1910
President of Switzerland
Robert Comtesse · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1911

1 January 1911
President of Switzerland
Marc-Émile Ruchet · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1912

1 January 1912
President of Switzerland
Ludwig Forrer · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1913

1 January 1913
President of Switzerland
Eduard Müller · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1914

1 January 1914
President of Switzerland
Arthur Hoffmann · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1916

1 January 1916
President of Switzerland
Camille Decoppet · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1917

1 January 1917
President of Switzerland
Edmund Schulthess · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1918

1 January 1918
President of Switzerland
Felix Calonder · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1921

1 January 1921
President of Switzerland
Edmund Schulthess · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1922

1 January 1922
President of Switzerland
Robert Haab · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1923

1 January 1923
President of Switzerland
Karl Scheurer · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1924

1 January 1924
President of Switzerland
Ernest Chuard · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1925

1 January 1925
President of Switzerland
Jean-Marie Musy · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1926

1 January 1926
President of Switzerland
Heinrich Häberlin · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1928

1 January 1928
President of Switzerland
Edmund Schulthess · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1929

1 January 1929
President of Switzerland
Robert Haab · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1930

1 January 1930
President of Switzerland
Jean-Marie Musy · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1931

1 January 1931
President of Switzerland
Heinrich Häberlin · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1933

1 January 1933
President of Switzerland
Edmund Schulthess · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1934

1 January 1934
President of Switzerland
Marcel Pilet-Golaz · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1935

1 January 1935
President of Switzerland
Rudolf Minger · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1936

1 January 1936
President of Switzerland
Albert Meyer · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1938

1 January 1938
President of Switzerland
Johannes Baumann · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1939

1 January 1939
President of Switzerland
Philipp Etter · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1940

1 January 1940
President of Switzerland
Marcel Pilet-Golaz · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1941

1 January 1941
President of Switzerland
Ernst Wetter · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1942

1 January 1942
President of Switzerland
Philipp Etter · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1943

1 January 1943
President of Switzerland
Enrico Celio · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1944

1 January 1944
President of Switzerland
Walther Stampfli · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1945

1 January 1945
President of Switzerland
Eduard von Steiger · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1946

1 January 1946
President of Switzerland
Karl Kobelt · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1947

1 January 1947
President of Switzerland
Philipp Etter · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1948

1 January 1948
President of Switzerland
Enrico Celio · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1949

1 January 1949
President of Switzerland
Ernst Nobs · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1950

1 January 1950
President of Switzerland
Max Petitpierre · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1951

1 January 1951
President of Switzerland
Eduard von Steiger · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1952

1 January 1952
President of Switzerland
Karl Kobelt · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1953

1 January 1953
President of Switzerland
Philipp Etter · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1954

1 January 1954
President of Switzerland
Rodolphe Rubattel · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1955

1 January 1955
President of Switzerland
Max Petitpierre · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

1956

1 January 1956
President of Switzerland
Markus Feldmann · Government of Switzerland

Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.

2020

16 March 2020
COVID-19
Simonetta Sommaruga · Government of Switzerland

Switzerland declares an extraordinary situation under epidemic law.

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These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Switzerland and Bern. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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