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Basel Tattoo, founded in 2006 by the local Top Secret Drum Corps, has grown to be the world's second largest military tattoo in terms of performers and budget after the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. [153] The Basel Tattoo annual parade, with an estimated 125,000 visitors, is considered the largest event in Basel.
1969 – Basel Institute for Immunology founded. 1970 Art Basel begins. Population: 212,857 in city; 234,945 in canton. [16] The Israelitische Gemeinde Basel (or IGB) is the first Jewish community in Switzerland to be recognised under public law. [22]
The University of Basel (Latin: Universitas Basiliensis, German: Universität Basel) is a public research university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest surviving universities. The university is traditionally counted among the leading institutions of higher learning ...
The delegates at the First Zionist Congress, held in Basel, Switzerland (1897). Mountain Jewish delegates with Herzl at the First Zionist Congress. The First Zionist Congress (Hebrew: הקונגרס הציוני הראשון) was the inaugural congress of the Zionist Organization (ZO) held in the Stadtcasino Basel in the city of Basel on August 29–31, 1897.
The oldest known farming settlements in Switzerland, which were found at Gächlingen, date to around 5300 BC. [36] Founded in 44 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus, Augusta Raurica (near Basel) was the first Roman settlement on the Rhine and is now among the most important archaeological sites in Switzerland. [37]
The capital of the canton Basel-Stadt is the city of Basel. The present constitution of the canton dates from 1889. The present constitution of the canton dates from 1889. In 1966 Basel-Stadt became the first German-speaking canton to allow women to vote, five years before the right to vote was extended to all Swiss women in 1971.
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Basel was a canton of Switzerland that was in existence between 1501 and 1833, when it was split into the two half-cantons of Basel-City and Basel-Country. [1]