Old Swiss Confederacy founded
1291 · Event
Three alpine cantons swear a mutual defence pact against Habsburg rule, the seed of modern Switzerland.
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Around 1291
- Ottoman Empire (1299)
- Dante's Divine Comedy (1320)
- Yuan dynasty (1271)
- Majapahit Empire (1293)
- Mongol sack of Baghdad (1258)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Rumi's Masnavi (1258)
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Muromachi shogunate (Ashikaga) (1336)
- Marco Polo travels to China (1271)