1764 The “Harten” are victorious in Zug.
1768 Armed intervention of France, Zurich, and Bern in Geneva to suppress popular revolts of the “natives.” Disorders occur in the patriciate of Lucerne.
1770 The “natives” rise in revolt in Geneva.
1777 All of the thirteen states of the confederation join in making a new alliance with France. Political disturbances occur in Zurich.
1780 The meetings of the Helvetic Society are forbidden.
1781 Anarchy in Geneva. Pastor Waser is executed at Zurich for opposition to the city government. France, Bern, and Sardinia intervene. Emigration from Geneva. Insurrection at Fribourg under Chenaux.
1784 Joseph Suter, a popular leader in the Inner Rhodes of Appenzell, is executed.
1789 The French Revolution begins to find sympathizers in Switzerland.
1790 Exiles from Vaud and Fribourg organise the Helvetic Club at Paris to spread the new ideas in Switzerland. The club stirs up risings in the western part of the confederation. Lower Valais rises against the oppressive rule of the upper districts.
1792 Porrentruy defies the prince-bishop of Bâle; with the help of the French drives out the imperial troops; forms the Rauracian Republic. This afterward becomes the French department of Mont Terrible. Geneva is saved from France by a force from Zurich and Bern. Massacre of the Swiss guards at the Tuileries by the Paris mob. The diet of Aarau orders the recall of the Swiss regiments.