2011 in Switzerland
Events from 2011 in Switzerland.
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Events
Public holidays in one or several cantons of Switzerland are marked (¹).
January
- January 1: New Year's Day¹
- January 2: Berchtoldstag¹
March
- March 19:Saint Joseph's Day
- March 29:Good Friday
- March 31:Easter Day
April
- April 1:Easter Monday
May
- May–June-2011 Germany E. coli O104:H4 outbreak affected Switzerland
- May 1:May Day
- May 9:Ascension Day
- May 19:Pentecost
- May 20:Whit Monday
- May 30:Corpus Christi
June
- June 16-Convention on Domestic Workers signed, took place in Geneva
July
- July 2-Some Swiss tourists were kidnapped in Balochistan
- July 25-July 31-2011 Crédit Agricole Suisse Open Gstaad was in play
August
- August-August 2011 stock markets fall affected the Swiss Franc
- August 1:Swiss National Day
- August 15:Assumption of Mary
- August 17-August 21-2011 Basel Summer Ice Hockey was in play
September
- September 16:Swiss federal fast
October
- October 31-November 6-2011 Swiss Indoors was in play
November
- November 1:All Saints' Day
- November 25-27-2011 International ZO Women's Tournament was in play
December
- December 8:Feast of the Immaculate Conception
- December 15-December 22-Cyclone Joachim affected Switzerland
- December 24:Christmas Eve
- December 25:Christmas Day
- December 26:St. Stephen's Day
- December 26-December 31-2011 Spengler Cup was in play
- December 31:New Year's Eve
Establishments
Deaths
- Erhard Loretan died climbing in the Alps[1]
- December 7-Clemens Thoma
See also
- de:Feiertage in der Schweiz (Public holidays in Switzerland)
- Deaths in 2011
- List of Swiss people
- List of number-one hits of 2011 (Switzerland)
References
- "Famed Swiss climber Erhard Loretan dies in fall in Alps". BBC News. 29 April 2011.
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