28 June 1754
Birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Geneva in Switzerland. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Birth of Jean-Jacob Fazy
Writes another Constitution for Geneva establishing individual rights, confirming universal suffrage and modifying the legislative and executive powers. The State Council resigned and Fazy and the Radical Party sweep to power, they govern Geneva without interruption from 1847 to 1861. The Constitution that he wrote for Geneva in 1847 meant that, for the first time over 300 years, Protestantism was no longer the dominant religion
The State Council resigned and Fazy and the Radical Party sweep to power, they govern Geneva without interruption from 1847 to 1861
Writes another Constitution for Geneva establishing individual rights, confirming universal suffrage and modifying the legislative and executive powers
Writes another Constitution for Geneva establishing individual rights, confirming universal suffrage and modifying the legislative and executive powers
Suffers an important electoral defeat in Geneva and is obliged to step down
Suffers an important electoral defeat in Geneva and is obliged to step down
Jean Henru Dunant founds the Red Cross in Geneva
Receives his first honorary doctorate, awarded by the University of Geneva.
Opens the first Assembly of the League in Geneva.
Appointed Director of Studies at the JJ Rouseau Institute
Appointed Assistant Director at the JJ Rouseau Institute
Appointed Co Director at the JJ Rouseau Institute
Appointed Co Director at the JJ Rouseau Institute
Appointed Director of the Psychological Laboratory at Geneva
Appointed Director of the Psychological Laboratory at Geneva
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