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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 Second International was founded in 1889. St. Martin's Hall Meeting, London, 1864 ... George Howell (former secretary of ... Basel Congress (1869) Hague Congress ...
The University of Basel, Switzerland's oldest university (founded in 1460), [11] and the city's centuries-long commitment to humanism, have made Basel a safe haven at times of political unrest in other parts of Europe for such notable people as Erasmus of Rotterdam, [12] the Holbein family, Friedrich Nietzsche, [13] Carl Jung, and in the 20th ...
George-Emile Eberhard [1] [2] La Chaux-de-Fonds: Barbara Monti, CEO, Mario Peserico, Managing Director Ebosa 1915 Grenchen [3] Paul Leo Glocker [3] Endura Watch Factory: 1966 Biel/Bienne: Biel/Bienne: Subsidiary: The Swatch Group: Pierre-André Bühler, President Epos: 1983 Biel: Peter Hofer Lengnau: Singi Chonge (chairman of the board) Tamdi ...
The Basel Congress of 1869 is the common name assigned to the 4th General Congress of the International Workingmen's Association (IWA), commonly known as the First ...
The Basel mission was the result. [2] The first president of the society was the Reverend Nikolaus von Brunn. [2] The mission was founded as the German Missionary Society in 1815. The mission later changed its name to the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society, and finally the Basel Mission. The society built a school to train Dutch and British ...
The Basel missionaries founded the Akropong seminary and normal school to train teacher-catechists in service of the mission. [ 13 ] [ 16 ] The college is the second oldest higher educational institution in early modern West Africa after Fourah Bay College in Freetown , Sierra Leone which was established in 1827. [ 16 ]
Basel Minster (German: Basler Münster) is a religious building in the Swiss city of Basel, originally a Catholic cathedral and today a Reformed Protestant church. The original cathedral was built between 1019 and 1500 in Romanesque and Gothic styles.