Restoration and Regeneration in Switzerland

Swiss Confederation Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft (de) Confédération suisse (fr) Confederazione Svizzera (it)
1814–1848
Flag Coat of arms[1]
Common languages	Swiss French, Swiss German, Swiss Italian, Romansch
Religion	Roman Catholic Reformed Jewish
Demonym(s)	Swiss
Government	Federal Diet
History
• First meeting of delegates from all the nineteen cantons at Zurich	6 April 1814
• Federal Treaty	7 August 1815
• Sonderbund War	November 1847
• Swiss Federal Constitution	12 September 1848
Currency	Different franc for each canton Konkordatsbatzen from 1825
ISO 3166 code	CH
Preceded by Succeeded by Swiss Confederation (Mediation) Simplon (department) Mont-Terrible Léman (department) Principality of Neuchâtel Rhäzüns Republic of Geneva Switzerland

The periods of Restoration and Regeneration in Swiss history lasted from 1814 to 1847. "Restoration" is the period of 1814 to 1830,^[2] the restoration of the Ancien Régime (federalism), reverting the changes imposed by Napoleon Bonaparte on the centralist Helvetic Republic from 1798 and the partial reversion to the old system with the Act of Mediation of 1803. "Regeneration" is the period of 1830 to 1848, when in the wake of the July Revolution the "restored" Ancien Régime was countered by the liberal movement. In the Protestant cantons, the rural population enforced liberal cantonal constitutions, partly in armed marches on the cities. This resulted in a conservative backlash in the Catholic cantons in the 1830s, raising the conflict to the point of civil war by 1847.