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  1. Complete the sentence about Lausanne with the correct year: From 888 to ______, the initially relatively small town belonged to the Kingdom of Upper Burgundy.
  2. Complete the sentence about Winterthur with the correct year: With the extinction of the counts of Winterthur in ______, the castle passed to the counts of Dillingen.
  3. Complete the sentence about Lucerne with the correct year: In ______ Lucerne acquired its independence from the jurisdiction of Murbach Abbey, and the founding of the city proper probably occurred tha…
  4. Complete the sentence about Lucerne with the correct year: By ______, Lucerne had become a self-sufficient city of reasonable size with about 3000 inhabitants.
  5. Complete the sentence about Lucerne with the correct year: The issue was settled by Lucerne's victory over the Habsburgs in the Battle of Sempach in ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Lucerne with the correct year: In ______ Lucerne gained Reichsfreiheit from Emperor Sigismund and became a strong member of the Swiss confederacy.
  7. Complete the sentence about Lugano with the correct year: In ______, the political municipality of Lugano was created, following the establishment of the canton.
  8. Complete the sentence about Lugano with the correct year: Since ______, Lugano has been an important stop on the international Gotthard Railway.
  9. Complete the sentence about Lugano with the correct year: The toponym is first recorded in 804 AD, in the form Luanasco, in 874 as Luano, and from ______ as Lugano.
  10. Complete the sentence about Thun with the correct year: The Thun-Renzenbühl axe, dating from ______ BC, is one of the earliest examples of damascening technique in the world.
  11. Complete the sentence about Thun with the correct year: The region of Thun became a part of the Holy Roman Empire in ______, when Conrad II gained the title of King of Burgundy.
  12. Complete the sentence about Köniz with the correct year: A bailiwick was established, which existed until the collapse of the old Bern in ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Schaffhausen with the correct year: Schaffhausen was a city state in the Middle Ages, documented to have struck its own coins from ______.
  14. Complete the sentence about Schaffhausen with the correct year: About ______ the counts of Nellenburg founded the Benedictine monastery of All Saints, which became the centre of the town.
  15. Complete the sentence about Schaffhausen with the correct year: The powers of the abbot were gradually limited and in ______ the Emperor Rudolf I gave the town a charter of liberties.
  16. Complete the sentence about Schaffhausen with the correct year: In ______ the emperor Louis of Bavaria pledged it to the Habsburgs.
  17. Complete the sentence about Fribourg with the correct year: The town was founded as Freiburg in ______ by Berthold IV, Duke of Zähringen.
  18. Complete the sentence about Fribourg with the correct year: When the dukes of Zähringen died out in ______, the city was transferred to the related Kyburg family.
  19. Complete the sentence about Neuchâtel with the correct year: The castle after which the city is named was built by Rudolph III of Burgundy and completed in ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Neuchâtel with the correct year: Originally part of the Kingdom of Burgundy, the city was absorbed into the Holy Roman Empire in ______.
  21. Complete the sentence about Neuchâtel with the correct year: The domain of the counts of Neuchâtel was first referred to as a city in ______.
  22. Complete the sentence about Neuchâtel with the correct year: In ______, Neuchâtel became a republic and a canton of Switzerland.
  23. Complete the sentence about Uster with the correct year: With the dissolution of the monastery Ruti during the Reformation in Zürich its rights fell on the government of the city of Zürich in ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Emmen, Switzerland with the correct year: After the Battle of Sempach in ______ the Habsburg's lost Emmen and it became part of the Canton of Lucerne.
  25. Complete the sentence about Emmen, Switzerland with the correct year: Since ______, Emmen is part of the Hochdorf District and is its most populous municipality.
  26. Complete the sentence about Kriens with the correct year: In ______ the local peasants revolted under the leadership of Hans Spengler.
  27. Complete the sentence about Rapperswil-Jona with the correct year: Dionysius Chapel, dedicated to Denis, the first bishop of Paris, was reconstructed in ______ and attracts pilgrims.
  28. Complete the sentence about Rapperswil-Jona with the correct year: The town was soon acquired by the Habsburg family who, in ______/60, built the wooden bridge across the upper Lake Zurich.
  29. Complete the sentence about Dübendorf with the correct year: After Waldmann's execution in ______, all his possessions fell to the city of Zürich.
  30. Complete the sentence about Montreux with the correct year: In ______, the Bishop of Sion sold the parish of Montreux to Girard of Oron.
  31. Complete the sentence about Montreux with the correct year: A Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit administered estates and a hospital in Montreux starting in about ______.
  32. Complete the sentence about Frauenfeld with the correct year: In the 13th century, Erching formed a self-contained manor farm complex and was occupied by a Habsburg Vogt after ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Frauenfeld with the correct year: Frauenfeld is first mentioned in ______ as Vrowinvelt though it had been growing slowly during the second third of the 13th century.
  34. Complete the sentence about Frauenfeld with the correct year: In ______ a knight with the last name/title zum Kyburger Umfeld is first mentioned in Frauenfeld.
  35. Complete the sentence about Aarau with the correct year: In ______ divers in the Aare found part of a seven-meter wide wooden bridge from the late Roman times.
  36. Complete the sentence about Aarau with the correct year: In ______ Bern invaded lower Aargau with the help of Solothurn.
  37. Complete the sentence about Aarau with the correct year: In March ______ the citizens of Aarau allowed the introduction of Protestantism at the urging of the Bernese.
  38. Complete the sentence about Davos with the correct year: Since ______, it has hosted the World Economic Forum, an annual meeting of global political and corporate leaders.
  39. Complete the sentence about Davos with the correct year: From about ______ the barons of Vaz allowed German-speaking Walser colonists to settle and conceded them extensive self-administration rights.
  40. Complete the sentence about Davos with the correct year: In ______, with the death of the last Baron of Vaz, Davos came into possession of Frederick V, the Count of Toggenburg, who was the brother of…
  41. Complete the sentence about Davos with the correct year: In ______, the League of the Ten Jurisdictions was founded in Davos.
  42. Complete the sentence about St. Moritz with the correct year: In ______, the Medici pope Leo X promised full absolution to anyone making a pilgrimage to the church of the springs.
  43. Complete the sentence about St. Moritz with the correct year: In ______, Paracelsus, the great practitioner of natural remedies, spent some time in St.
  44. Complete the sentence about St. Moritz with the correct year: Although it received some visitors during the summer, the origins of the winter resort only date back to September ______, when St.
  45. Complete the sentence about Zermatt with the correct year: The results of this study are published in the December ______ edition of Zermatt Inside.
  46. Complete the sentence about Grindelwald with the correct year: Mentioned for the first time in ______, it has become an important tourist destination of both Switzerland and the Alps since the golden…
  47. Complete the sentence about Grindelwald with the correct year: In ______, King Conrad III granted estates in Grindelwald to Interlaken Monastery.
  48. Complete the sentence about Grindelwald with the correct year: The Duke defeated a coalition of nobles in the Grindlewald valley in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Lauterbrunnen with the correct year: Lauterbrunnen was first mentioned in ______ as "in claro fonte", a Romance language place name meaning "clear spring".
  50. Complete the sentence about Lauterbrunnen with the correct year: In ______ the Freiherr of Wädenswil sold the Sefinen Valley to Interlaken Monastery.
  51. Complete the sentence about Gstaad with the correct year: The Eagle Ski Club opened in ______, and was funded by Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick.
  52. Complete the sentence about Gstaad with the correct year: The first ski lifts at Funi opened in ______-44 and were followed by a number of gondolas, ski, and chair lifts.
  53. Complete the sentence about Gstaad with the correct year: The Gstaad Palace opened in ______ as Gstaad's first luxury hotel.
  54. Complete the sentence about Bellinzona with the correct year: In ______, following the death of Otto III, Marquis Arduino of Ivrea declared himself King of Italy and ratified the bishop's ownership of…
  55. Complete the sentence about Bellinzona with the correct year: The town is mentioned in medieval sources in ______ as Bilizione.
  56. Complete the sentence about Vevey with the correct year: Vevey is home to the world headquarters of the international food and beverage company Nestlé, founded here in ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about Vevey with the correct year: Milk chocolate was invented in Vevey by Daniel Peter in ______, with the aid of Henri Nestlé.
  58. Complete the sentence about Vevey with the correct year: Vevey lived through a period of prosperity after the Vaud Revolution of ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Appenzell with the correct year: By about ______, conflicts over grazing rights, taxes, and tithes were causing concern for both the abbot and the farmers of Appenzell.
  60. Complete the sentence about Appenzell with the correct year: In ______ Appenzell was allowed to join the League with the support of the cities of Konstanz and St.
  61. Complete the sentence about Appenzell with the correct year: In response, in ______ Appenzell entered into an alliance with the city of St.
  62. Complete the sentence about Appenzell with the correct year: Perhaps fearing the Habsburgs, in ______ the League expelled Appenzell.
  63. Complete the sentence about Appenzell with the correct year: On 15 May ______, they entered the pass to Speicher and outside the village of Vögelinsegg met the Appenzell army.
  64. Complete the sentence about Stein am Rhein with the correct year: On February 22, ______, the town was bombed by the United States Air Force.
  65. Complete the sentence about Altdorf, Uri with the correct year: The current town was first mentioned in ______ as Alttorf, whereas some sources from the 16th to 19th centuries occasionally refer to it…
  66. Complete the sentence about Altdorf, Uri with the correct year: Around ______, many villagers of Altdorf acquired exclusive rights to much of the communal lands, while the Bannwald forest remained col…
  67. Complete the sentence about Einsiedeln with the correct year: As early as ______, the villages of Einsiedeln and Schwyz were in conflict over land near the two Mythen mountains.
  68. Complete the sentence about Einsiedeln with the correct year: The Habsburgs were able to quiet the conflict for a few years, until ______ when Schwyz, Uri and Unterwalden revolted against the Habsburg…
  69. Complete the sentence about Einsiedeln with the correct year: In ______ the conflict flared up again with an attack by Schwyz into Einsiedeln.
  70. Complete the sentence about Matterhorn with the correct year: The north face was not climbed until ______ and is among the three biggest north faces of the Alps, known as "The Trilogy".
  71. Complete the sentence about Matterhorn with the correct year: The west face, the highest of the Matterhorn's four faces, was completely climbed only in ______.
  72. Complete the sentence about Eiger with the correct year: The first ascent of the Eiger was made by Swiss guides Christian Almer and Peter Bohren and Irishman Charles Barrington, who climbed the west f…
  73. Complete the sentence about Eiger with the correct year: The north face, the "last problem" of the Alps, considered amongst the most challenging and dangerous ascents, was first climbed in ______ by a…
  74. Complete the sentence about Eiger with the correct year: The Eigerwand station has not been regularly served since ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Jungfrau with the correct year: The summit was first reached on 3 August ______, by the Meyer brothers of Aarau and two chamois hunters from Valais.
  76. Complete the sentence about Jungfrau with the correct year: Along with the Aletsch Glacier to the south, the Jungfrau is part of the Jungfrau-Aletsch area, which was declared a World Heritage Site in…
  77. Complete the sentence about Mont Blanc with the correct year: The first systematic account of the minerals of the Mont Blanc area was published in ______ by Venance Payot.
  78. Complete the sentence about Mont Blanc with the correct year: The Mont Blanc was the highest mountain of the Frankish Empire under Charlemagne and the highest mountain of the Holy Roman Empire until _…
  79. Complete the sentence about Mont Blanc with the correct year: Pierre Martel's ______ map and sketch of the Chamonix valley contains what is considered the first printed appearance of the name "Mont Bl…
  80. Complete the sentence about Mont Blanc with the correct year: In ______, Swiss naturalist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure began to go to Chamonix to observe Mont Blanc.
  81. Complete the sentence about Monte Rosa with the correct year: The great east wall was first climbed in ______, from Macugnaga by Richard Pendlebury with his brother, W.
  82. Complete the sentence about Monte Rosa with the correct year: On old maps as late as ______, the mountain was named Monte Bosa and even Monte Biosa by the inhabitants of Val Sesia.
  83. Complete the sentence about Dufourspitze with the correct year: Monte Rosa succeeded the Finsteraarhorn as the highest summit of Switzerland in ______, when Valais joined the Swiss Confederation.
  84. Complete the sentence about Dufourspitze with the correct year: Count Morozzo of Turin was inspired by the view of Monte Rosa and in ______ he tried to reach its summit from the east face.
  85. Complete the sentence about Dufourspitze with the correct year: In ______, following the recommendation of the Count, Horace-Bénédict de Saussure went to Macugnaga to explore the mountain.
  86. Complete the sentence about Dufourspitze with the correct year: A first serious attempt was made in ______ by a doctor of Alagna, Pietro Giordani.
  87. Complete the sentence about Jungfraujoch with the correct year: The first ascent of the north side of the Jungfraujoch succeeded in July ______, by a party of six English climbers and six Swiss guides…
  88. Complete the sentence about Gotthard Pass with the correct year: The first wooden bridge across Schöllenen Gorge was built around ______, and in the following years the pass rapidly gained in importan…
  89. Complete the sentence about Gotthard Pass with the correct year: An important aspect of the early confederacy, expressed in the Pfaffenbrief of ______, was the guarantee of peace along the road from Z…
  90. Complete the sentence about Gotthard Base Tunnel with the correct year: From ______ onwards, a daily course by the Gotthard Post, a stagecoach drawn by five horses with ten seats, still took about 23…
  91. Complete the sentence about Great St Bernard Pass with the correct year: Straddling the highest point of the road, the Great St Bernard Hospice was founded in ______.
  92. Complete the sentence about Albula Railway with the correct year: Up until ______, the south east of Switzerland was extremely poorly served by railways.
  93. Complete the sentence about Albula Railway with the correct year: After Thusis was reached from Chur, the construction of the Albula line began on 15 October ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about Albula Railway with the correct year: On 1 July ______, the opening of the section between Thusis and Celerina could be celebrated.
  95. Complete the sentence about Glacier Express with the correct year: The first Glacier Express started on 30 June ______ at 07:30 in Zermatt.
  96. Complete the sentence about Glacier Express with the correct year: The completion of the final portion of the FO in ______ opened up the cantons of Valais and Graubünden to further tourist development…
  97. Complete the sentence about Glacier Express with the correct year: Until ______, the Glacier Express operated only in the summer months, because the Furka Pass and the Oberalp Pass were both snowed ov…
  98. Complete the sentence about Glacier Express with the correct year: From ______, the Glacier Express through coaches were attached to normal passenger trains between Brig and Zermatt.
  99. Complete the sentence about Rhaetian Railway with the correct year: On 29 June ______, a ground-breaking ceremony took place for a narrow-gauge railway instead.
  100. Complete the sentence about Chillon Castle with the correct year: The name Castrum Quilonis, attested from ______, would, therefore, mean "castle built on a rock platform".

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