A reformist majority in the Swiss Diet,…
July 1847 CE
A reformist majority in the Swiss Diet, representing the other cantons, declares the Sonderbund, an alliance of seven Catholic cantons, to be incompatible with the Federal Pact and demands its dissolution in July 1847.
It also votes for the drafting of a new Federal Pact, and for the expulsion of the Jesuits.
Ulrich Ochsenbein, as president of the Bernese government, simultaneously presides over the confederation Diet during the proscription of the Sonderbund and the initial phase of the subsequent civil war.
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