Host City Berne
1191, Duke Berchtold V von Zähringen the city of Bern. With the extinction of the Zähringer rich become vacant, it looks increasingly Kyburg and Habsburg access threatened, resulting in 1255 for connection to Savoy. The victory at Laupen 1339 against Freiburg and the Burgundian nobility and the inclusion in the federal government in 1353 Berns favor expansion policy, with the annexation of Aargau in 1415 by its first peak. In the Burgundian War will be added first parts of Vaud, after the utter conquest of 1536 is Bern's largest city-state north of the Alps dar. uprisings of the peasants (1653) and urban citizens (1749) are capable of the absolutist ruling patrician not to its knees. His fall brings the first invasion of the French (1798). As a result, lost the Aargau, Bern and Vaud possessions replaced, but in the Congress of Vienna, the former Bishopric of Basel (law) awarded as a substitute. 1848 Bern is the federal capital.
