The periods of Restoration and Regeneration in Swiss history last from 1814 to 1847.
"Restoration" refers to the period of 1814 to 1830, the restoration of the Ancien Régime (federalism), reverting the changes imposed by Napoleon Bonaparte on the centralist Helvetic Republic from 1798 and the partial reversion to the old system with the Act of Mediation of 1803.
"Regeneration" refers to the period of 1830 to 1848, when in the wake of the July Revolution the "restored" Ancien Régime was countered by the liberal movement.
In the Protestant cantons, the rural population enforced liberal cantonal constitutions, partly in armed marches on the cities.
This resuls in a conservative backlash in the Catholic cantons in the 1830s, raising the conflict to the point of civil war by 1847.
