The cantonal act by the seven Catholic…
March 1845 CE
The cantonal act by the seven Catholic cantons, although constitutionally permissible, provokes widespread popular indignation.
Ulrich Oschsenbein, a thirty-four-year-old Bernese staff officer and ardent radical, leads bands of volunteers from Protestant cantons in an unsuccessful expedition against the clerical government of Luzern in March 1845.