Chronology 191
(^) General Romandie/Savoy
1536–7 Dispute between Bern and Fribourg
over control of Vaud, northern
Chablais, and Gruyère
1536–8 Italian War between Empire and France
1538 Formal submission of Lausanne
(bishop and city)
Expulsion of Farel and Calvin from
Geneva (return 1541)
1539 Treaty of Morat settles Vaud frontiers
Affair of the Articulants in Geneva
1543 Proposed sale of Neuchâtel to
Fribourg
1544 ‘Départ de Bâle’
1545–55 Conflict over county of Gruyère
1550/52 Geneva applies for full membership
of Swiss Confederation
1555 Sale of Upper Gruyère to Bern and
Lower Gruyère to Fribourg
1559 Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis between
Spanish Habsburgs and France
1564 Treaty of Lausanne: Gex and Chablais
restored to Savoy (effective 1567)
Duke Emmanuel Philibert restored
to duchy of Savoy
1569 Treaty of Thonon: eastern Chablais
restored to Savoy
1601 Treaty of Lyon: Bugey and Gex restored
to France
1602 Savoy attacks Geneva (the Escalade)
1603 Treaty of St-Julien: Genevan
independence recognized