List of wars involving Switzerland

This article is an incomplete list of wars and conflicts involving Switzerland, since the creation of the Old Swiss Confederacy.

Old Swiss Confederacy

Growth (1291–1523)

Main article: Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents		Outcome
			Allies	Enemies
15 November 1315		Battle of Morgarten part of the growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy	Old Swiss Confederacy	Archduchy of Austria	Decisive Swiss victory Pact of Brunnen
9 July 1386		Battle of Sempach part of the growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy	Old Swiss Confederacy	Archduchy of Austria	Decisive Swiss victory
30 June 1422		Battle of Arbedo	Old Swiss Confederacy	Duchy of Milan	Defeat: Temporarily discouraged Swiss expansion in the direction of Lake Maggiore
2 November 1440	12 June 1446	Old Zürich War	Old Swiss Confederacy	Imperial City of Zürich Archduchy of Austria Kingdom of France	Swiss Confederation victory
1474	1477	Burgundian Wars	Old Swiss Confederacy Duchy of Lorraine	Duchy of Burgundy  Duchy of Savoy	Franco-Swiss victory
January 1499	September 1499	Swabian War	Old Swiss Confederacy	Holy Roman Empire Swabian League	Swiss Confederation victory Treaty of Basel (1499): Further independence of the Swiss Confederation from the Holy Roman Empire
1511	1516	War of the League of Cambrai	Swiss mercenaries  Papal States  Spain  Holy Roman Empire  England Duchy of Milan	Venice  France  Scotland Duchy of Ferrara	Defeat End of Swiss expansionism, beginning of Swiss neutrality

Reformation (1523–1648)

Main article: Reformation in Switzerland

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents		Outcome
			Allies	Enemies
1529		First War of Kappel Civil War of religions	Protestant cantons	Catholic cantons	Unresolved, no actual battles fought
1531		Musso war	Three Leagues Old Swiss Confederacy (Protestant cantons)	Duchy of Milan	Victory Increased Catholic-Protestant tension, leading to the Second War of Kappel
1531		Second War of Kappel Civil War of religions	Catholics: Uri Schwyz Zug Lucerne Unterwalden	Protestants: Zürich	Catholic cantons victory

Ancien Régime (1648–1798)

Main article: Early Modern Switzerland

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents		Outcome
			Allies	Enemies
January 1653	June 1653	Swiss peasant war of 1653 Civil War	Peasant rebels	City Governments troops	Military victory of the ruling city councils
1656 and 1712		The First War of Villmergen and the Toggenburg War (or Second War of Villmergen) Civil Wars of religion	Canton of Zürich Canton of Bern Canton of Schaffhausen	Canton of Lucerne Canton of Uri Canton of Schwyz Unterwalden Canton of Zug Freie Ämter Rapperswil	Catholic victory in First war, Protestant victory in second.

Napoleonic Era and Restoration (1798–1848)

Main article: Switzerland in the Napoleonic era

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents		Outcome
			Allies	Enemies
1798	1799	French Revolutionary Wars Swiss Campaign			Switzerland becomes a battlefield for Revolutionary France French victory: creation of the Helvetic Republic, a French client state
1799	1802	War of the Second Coalition	French Republic Polish Legions French client states	Austria  Russia  Great Britain (until 1801)  United Kingdom (from 1801) French Royalists Portugal  Two Sicilies  Ottoman Empire	French Republic victory
1802		Stecklikrieg Civil war	Centralists Helvetic Republic	Federalists Canton of Uri Canton of Schwyz Canton of Luzern Canton of Obwalden Canton of Nidwalden Canton of Glarus City of Zürich Canton of Bern Canton of Aargau Canton of Solothurn Appenzell Ausserrhoden Appenzell Innerrhoden	Collapse of the Helvetic Republic, French Act of Mediation and creation of the Swiss Confederation (Napoleonic)
1806	1807	War of the Fourth Coalition	First French Empire French client states	Prussia  Russia  United Kingdom  Saxony^[a]  Sweden Sicily	French victory
10 April 1809	14 October 1809	War of the Fifth Coalition	First French Empire French client states	Austria Tyrol (in rebellion against Bavaria)  United Kingdom Sicily  Sardinia Black Brunswickers	French victory
1813	1814	War of the Sixth Coalition	First French Empire French client states	Russia  Prussia  Austria  United Kingdom  Sweden Spain Portugal Sicily  Sardinia	Defeat
20 March 1815	8 July 1815	War of the Seventh Coalition	Seventh Coalition:  Austrian Empire  Russian Empire  Prussia  United Kingdom Hanover Nassau Brunswick  Sweden  United Netherlands  Spain Portugal  Sardinia Sicily Tuscany Switzerland French Royalists	First French Empire Naples	Coalition victory
3 November 1847	29 November 1847	Sonderbund War Civil war	Swiss Confederation  Aargau Appenzell AR  Basel-Landschaft  Basel-Stadt  Bern  Geneva  Glarus  Graubünden  St. Gallen  Solothurn  Thurgau  Ticino  Vaud  Zürich	Sonderbund  Fribourg  Lucerne  Nidwalden  Obwalden  Schwyz  Uri  Valais  Zug	Rise of Switzerland as a federal state

Modern Era

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents		Outcome
			Allies	Enemies
1940	1945	Aerial Incidents in Switzerland in World War II	Switzerland	United States Army Air Forces Royal Air Force Luftwaffe	Downing of multiple allied aircraft by Swiss fighters Bombings on multiple towns U.S. Government paid Swiss $4 million and an additional $14.4 million (in 1944/45 dollars) End of allied and German overflights following the end of World War II
2003	February 2008	War in Afghanistan	See War in Afghanistan	See War in Afghanistan	Swiss Withdrawal[1] - Conflict Ongoing

See also

• Military history of Switzerland
• Swiss Army

References

1. swissinfo.ch, S. W. I.; Corporation, a branch of the Swiss Broadcasting. "Switzerland ends military mission in Afghanistan". SWI swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 10 September 2019.