History of Switzerland

6 notable historical events in Switzerland, in chronological order.

16th century

1543★★★★★
Vesalius publishes De humani corporis fabrica
Andreas Vesalius publishes his illustrated work on human anatomy based on direct dissection, founding modern anatomy.
Science· Switzerland

1905★★★★★
Einstein's miracle year
Albert Einstein publishes four papers on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity and mass–energy equivalence.
Science· Switzerland
July 21, 1954★★★★★
Geneva Accords on Indochina
The Geneva Conference ends the First Indochina War, temporarily partitioning Vietnam at the 17th parallel pending elections planned for 1956.
Treaty· Vietnam, France, Laos, Cambodia, Switzerland
May 8, 1980★★★★★
Smallpox declared eradicated
The World Health Assembly officially declares smallpox eradicated, the first human infectious disease to be wiped out.
ScienceDisease· Switzerland
March 12, 1989★★★★★
World Wide Web proposed
Tim Berners-Lee submits "Information Management: A Proposal" at CERN, the origin of the World Wide Web.
Technology· Switzerland

July 4, 2012★★★★★
Discovery of the Higgs boson announced
CERN announces that the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have observed a particle consistent with the Higgs boson.
Science· Switzerland, France