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Geneva

City

City in Switzerland.

View on map 46.20° N, 6.15° E Wikipedia

Held by

December 13, 1798 – May 23, 1808 France de facto
October 14, 1808 – April 12, 1814 France de facto
December 21, 1813 – April 11, 1814 Austrian Empire de facto Military occupation
since May 15, 1815 Switzerland de facto
June 6, 1944 – August 31, 1944 Germany de facto Military occupation

Events here 32

August 22, 1864 First Geneva Convention
September 10, 1898 Assassination of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria
January 10, 1920 Founding of the League of Nations
1921 International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children
June 17, 1925 Geneva Protocol
1926 1926 Slavery Convention
July 27, 1929 Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War
September 12, 1934 Baltic Entente
August 12, 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention
August 12, 1949 Second Geneva Convention
August 12, 1949 Third Geneva Convention
1952 Universal Copyright Convention
April 26 – July 20, 1954 1954 Geneva Conference
July 18, 1955 Geneva Summit (1955)
May 19, 1956 CMR Convention
September 7, 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
June 25, 1957 Abolition of Forced Labour Convention
September 30, 1957 ADR (treaty)
1977 Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions
May 18, 1977 Environmental Modification Convention
May 8, 1980 Eradication of smallpox
October 10, 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
April 14, 1988 Geneva Accords (1988)
1989 Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989
March 12, 1989 – August 6, 1991 Invention of the World Wide Web
1990 Chemicals Convention
December 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty
December 20, 1996 WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
May 21, 2003 WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
February 23, 2006 Maritime Labour Convention
July 4, 2012 Discovery of the Higgs boson
June 16, 2021 2021 Russia–United States summit