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Wars and conflicts involving Switzerland since the creation of the Old Swiss Confederacy include:
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15 November 1315 | Battle of Morgarten part of |
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9 July 1386 | Battle of Sempach part of |
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Decisive Swiss victory | |
30 June 1422 | Battle of Arbedo | ![]() |
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Defeat:
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2 November 1440 | 12 June 1446 | Old Zürich War | ![]() |
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Swiss Confederation victory |
1474 | 1477 | Burgundian Wars | ![]() |
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Franco-Swiss victory |
January 1499 | September 1499 | Swabian War | ![]() |
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Swiss Confederation victory
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1511 | 1516 | War of the League of Cambrai |
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Defeat
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Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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1529 | First War of Kappel
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Protestant cantons | Catholic cantons | Unresolved, no actual battles fought | |
1531 | Musso war |
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Victory
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1531 | Second War of Kappel
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Catholics:
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Protestants: | Catholic cantons victory |
Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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January 1653 | June 1653 | Swiss peasant war of 1653
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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)
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Catholic victory in First war, Protestant victory in second. |
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1940 | 1945 | Aerial incidents in Switzerland in World War II | ![]() |
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2003 | 2008 | War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) |
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Taliban victory |
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