Geneva

Eventos (13)

• 1538

  5/26 — Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.

• 1541

  9/13 — Después de tres años de exilio, Juan Calvino regresa a Ginebra para reformar la iglesia bajo un cuerpo de doctrina conocido como el calvinismo.

• 1553

  8/13 — Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland as a heretic.

• 1553

  10/27 — Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.

• 1602

  12/11 — A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. (Commemorated annually by the Fête de l'Escalade.)

• 1863

  2/17 — A group of citizens of Geneva founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross.

• 1863

  10/29 — Dieciocho países se reúnen en Ginebra y acuerdan formar la Cruz Roja Internacional.

• 1920

  11/15 — First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.

• 1981

  11/30 — Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe. (The meetings end inconclusively on December 17.)

• 1985

  11/19 — Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.

• 1988

  4/14 — In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.

• 1988

  12/13 — PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York.

• 2008

  9/10 — The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.