190 Chronology
(^) General Romandie/Savoy
Revolt in Bernese Oberland
1529 Geneva abolishes office of justiciar
Beginning of peace negotiations with
Savoy
1529–31 Kappel Wars
1530 Savoy’s fresh attack on Geneva
Bern and Fribourg send relieving
army
Treaty of St-Julien (October)
Deed of arbitration at Payerne
(December)
1531 Second Peace of Kappel Renewal of Bern and Fribourg’s
Burgrecht with Lausanne and
Geneva
1532 Farel arrives in Geneva
Death of Besançon Hugues
1533 BE offers to accept four Vaud towns
as surety against Savoy’s failure to
discharge debts, rather than Vaud as
a whole
Murder of Canon Peter Werli in
Geneva
1534 Fribourg and Solothurn ally with V
Catholic cantons and Valais
Fribourg cancels Burgrecht with
Geneva
Supporters of bishop of Geneva take
refuge in Peney castle
1535 Death of Francesco Sforza, duke of
Milan
French espionage in Geneva
Negotiations with Savoy in Aosta
French military sorties to GE
(winter)
1536 Bernese march to Geneva (conquest
of the Vaud)
France invades Savoy and Piedmont
Valais communes occupy eastern
Chablais
Duke Charles II retires to Vercelli
Reformation in Geneva (May)
Renewal of Burgrecht between Bern
and Geneva (August)