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Other articles where Gotteshausbund is discussed: Chur: …was the centre of the Gotteshausbund (League of the House of God) against the power of the prince bishops and the Habsburgs in 1367, and it became the capital of the new canton of Graubünden in 1803. Notable landmarks include the Catholic Cathedral (1175–1282), the Episcopal (Bishop’s) Palace (rebuilt 1728–37),…
The League of God's House (German: Gotteshausbund, Italian: Lega Caddea, Romansh: Lia da la Chadé ⓘ) was formed in what is now Switzerland on 29 January 1367, to resist the rising power of the Bishopric of Chur and the House of Habsburg. The League allied with the Grey League and the League of the Ten Jurisdictions in 1471 to form the Three ...
Since 1848, the Swiss Confederation has been a federal republic of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of federation that goes back more than 700 years, putting them among the world's oldest surviving republics. The early history of the region is tied to that of Alpine culture. Switzerland was inhabited by the Helvetii ...
The founding of the United Nations. The history of the United Nations has its origins in World War II beginning with the Declaration of St James's Palace. Taking up the Wilsonian mantle in 1944–1945, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed as his highest postwar priority the establishment of the United Nations to replace the defunct League ...
The Freistaat Gemeiner Drei Bünde, the political unit known as the Three Leagues,1 originated in the late Middle Ages, when three separate alliances— the League of God’s House (Gotteshausbund), the Upper League or Gray League (Oberer Bund or Grauer Bund), and the League of the Ten Jurisdictions (Zehngerichtebund)—were formed within a territory bordered by the Swiss Confederation, the ...
The declaration of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, was a momentous event, marking the culmination of decades of Jewish nationalist aspirations and the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, made the declaration in a ceremony held at the Tel Aviv Museum.
NATO has its roots in the Atlantic Charter, a 1941 agreement between the United States and United Kingdom. The Charter laid out a framework for international cooperation without territorial expansion after World War II. [3] The Treaty of Brussels was a mutual defense treaty against the Soviet threat at the start of the Cold War.
