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Events relating to switzerland
20-year-old Le Corbusier builds his first house at La Chaux-de-Fonds, in his native Switzerland
Swiss chemist Jacques Brandenberger patents cellophane, a flexible transparent film made from cellulose
Carl Jung breaks with Freud and introduces the concept of the collective unconscious
Albert Einstein formulates the law of photochemical equivalence, a fundamental principle of chemical reactions induced by light
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret develops Maison Domino, a system of low-cost housing with reinforced concrete columns and precast floors
The Villa Schwob is completed, the last house designed by Le Corbusier in La Chaux-de-Fonds and one of the first in the world to use reinforced concrete
Tristan Tzara and other artists in Zurich call their new movement Dada (the French for 'hobby-horse', selected at random from a dictionary)
The German authorities allow Lenin to travel home from Switzerland through Germany, hoping for Communist disruption of the Russian war effort
The Swiss theologian Karl Barth publishes his influential Commentary on Romans, taking St Paul's epistle as his text
A Protocol signed in Geneva probibits the use in warfare of poisonous gas and bacteriological weapons
Treaties signed at Locarno, in Switzerland, aim to stabilize and guarantee Germany's borders with France and Belgium
Thomas Mann leaves Germany and moves to Switzerland, where he engages in a steady polemic against the Nazis
Bertolt Brecht's play set in the Thirty Years' War, Mother Courage, has its first performance in Zurich
Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti begins to develop his characteristic style of tense elongated bronze sculpture
The Visit, by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt, has its premiere in Zürich
Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses and Aaron, incomplete at his death, has its premiere in Zurich
The Fire Raisers, by Swiss dramatist Max Frisch, is performed in Zürich
At CERN, in Geneva, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau build ENQUIRE, a first step towards the future World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN in Geneva, publishes the first formal proposal for the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee, using CERN computers, puts online the first website at http://info.cern.ch
The Large Hadron Collider, at Cern in Switzerland, begins accelerating protons round a 17-mile circular tunnel
The Hadron Collider at Cern has to be halted when a serious fault develops, leading to a predicted six-month delay in the programme
CERN announces its successful production and brief capture of atoms of antihydrogen, the first observed example of antimatter
CERN announces the discovery in the Large Hadron Collider of a new particle, possibly the much anticipated Higgs boson
Scientists at CERN announce that the recently discovered particle is beyond doubt the Standard Model of the Higg's boson
