State · 1848 – present
Switzerland
A state of 1848 – present — 178 years, still standing in Europe. The atlas records 170 things within it — unrest and atrocity 3 · famine and plague 1 · treaties 24 · people 138 · works and ideas 4. Its line of rulers holds 123 people.
- Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 178 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 123
- the Member of the Swiss Federal Council
- Most ground
- 41,000 km²
- in 1871
- Within it
- 170
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 6
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of Member of the Swiss Federal Council - the office this state names as its head of state.
Member of the Swiss Federal Council: 123 holders, drawn and never measured - Switzerland's head of state is the Federal Council, seven members at once; its presidency rotates among them every year.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josef Munzinger · collegial | 1848 – 1855 | 7 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Jonas Furrer · collegial | 1848 – 1861 | 13 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Friedrich Frey-Herosé · collegial | 1848 – 1866 | 18 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ulrich Ochsenbein · collegial | 1848 – 1854 | 6 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Wilhelm Matthias Naeff · collegial | 1848 – 1875 | 27 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Stefano Franscini · collegial | 1848 – 1857 | 9 years | died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term | |
| Jakob Stämpfli · collegial | 1854 – 1863 | 9 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Constant Fornerod · collegial | 1855 – 1867 | 12 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Josef Martin Knüsel · collegial | 1855 – 1875 | 20 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Jakob Dubs · collegial | 1861 – 1872 | 11 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Emil Welti · collegial | 1867 – 1891 | 24 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Paul Cérésole · collegial | 1870 – 1875 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Johann Jakob Scherer · collegial | 1872 – 1878 | 6 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Louis Ruchonnet · collegial | 1875 – 1893 | 18 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Joachim Heer · collegial | 1875 – 1878 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Bernhard Hammer · collegial | 1876 – 1890 | 14 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Simeon Bavier · collegial | 1878 – 1883 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Wilhelm Hertenstein · collegial | 1879 – 1888 | 9 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Walter Hauser · collegial | 1888 – 1902 | 14 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Emil Frey · collegial | 1891 – 1897 | 6 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Adrien Lachenal · collegial | 1892 – 1899 | 7 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Eduard Müller · collegial | 1895 – 1919 | 24 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Marc-Émile Ruchet · collegial | 1899 – 1912 | 13 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Josef Anton Schobinger · collegial | 1908 – 1911 | 3 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Edmund Schulthess · collegial | 1912 – 1935 | 23 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Felix Calonder · collegial | 1913 – 1920 | 7 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Gustave Ador · collegial | 1917 – 1919 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ernest Chuard · collegial | 1919 – 1928 | 9 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Karl Scheurer · collegial | 1920 – 1929 | 9 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Heinrich Häberlin · collegial | 1920 – 1934 | 14 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Marcel Pilet-Golaz · collegial | 1928 – 1944 | 16 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Rudolf Minger · collegial | 1929 – 1940 | 11 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Albert Meyer · collegial | 1930 – 1938 | 8 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Johannes Baumann · collegial | 1934 – 1940 | 6 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Philipp Etter · collegial | 1934 – 1959 | 25 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Karl Kobelt · collegial | 1940 – 1954 | 14 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Walther Stampfli · collegial | 1940 – 1947 | 7 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ernst Nobs · collegial | 1944 – 1951 | 7 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Josef Escher · collegial | 1950 – 1954 | 4 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Markus Feldmann · collegial | 1951 – 1958 | 7 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Hans Streuli · collegial | 1954 – 1959 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Friedrich Traugott Wahlen · collegial | 1958 – 1965 | 7 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Hans-Peter Tschudi · collegial | 1959 – 1973 | 14 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Willy Spühler · collegial | 1959 – 1970 | 11 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Jean Bourgknecht · collegial | 1960 – 1962 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Rudolf Gnägi · collegial | 1965 – 1979 | 14 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Pierre Graber · collegial | 1969 – 1978 | 9 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Kurt Furgler · collegial | 1971 – 1986 | 15 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Willi Ritschard · collegial | 1973 – 1983 | 10 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Georges-André Chevallaz · collegial | 1973 – 1983 | 10 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Hans Hürlimann · collegial | 1974 – 1982 | 8 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Pierre Aubert · collegial | 1977 – 1987 | 10 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Leon Schlumpf · collegial | 1979 – 1987 | 8 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Alphons Egli · collegial | 1982 – 1986 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Rudolf Friedrich · collegial | 1982 – 1984 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Jean-Pascal Delamuraz · collegial | 1983 – 1998 | 15 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Elisabeth Kopp · collegial | 1984 – 1989 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| René Felber · collegial | 1987 – 1993 | 6 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Flavio Cotti · collegial | 1987 – 1999 | 12 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Adolf Ogi · collegial | 1988 – 2000 | 12 years | ending not on record | |
| Kaspar Villiger · collegial | 1989 – 2003 | 14 years | ending not on record | |
| Ruth Dreifuss · collegial | 1993 – 2002 | 9 years | ending not on record | |
| Moritz Leuenberger · collegial | 1995 – 2010 | 15 years | ending not on record | |
| Pascal Couchepin · collegial | 1998 – 2009 | 11 years | ending not on record | |
| Joseph Deiss · collegial | 1999 – 2006 | 7 years | ending not on record | |
| Ruth Metzler · collegial | 1999 – 2003 | 4 years | ending not on record | |
| Samuel Schmid · collegial | 2001 – 2008 | 7 years | ending not on record | |
| Hans-Rudolf Merz · collegial | 2003 – 2010 | 7 years | ending not on record | |
| Micheline Calmy-Rey · collegial | 2003 – 2011 | 8 years | ending not on record | |
| Christoph Blocher · collegial | 2003 – 2007 | 4 years | not re-electedWikidata's end cause on the term | |
| Doris Leuthard · collegial | 2006 – 2018 | 12 years | resignedWikidata's end cause on the term | |
| Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf · collegial | 2008 – 2015 | 7 years | ending not on record | |
| Ueli Maurer · collegial | 2009 – 2022 | 13 years | resignedWikidata's end cause on the term | |
| Didier Burkhalter · collegial | 2009 – 2017 | 8 years | ending not on record | |
| Simonetta Sommaruga · collegial | 2010 – 2022 | 12 years | resignedWikidata's end cause on the term | |
| Johann Schneider-Ammann · collegial | 2010 – 2018 | 8 years | ending not on record | |
| Alain Berset · collegial | 2012 – 2023 | 11 years | ending not on record | |
| Guy Parmelin · collegial | 2016 – in office | in office since 2016 | still in office | |
| Ignazio Cassis · collegial | 2017 – in office | in office since 2017 | still in office | |
| Karin Keller-Sutter · collegial | 2019 – in office | in office since 2019 | still in office | |
| Viola Amherd · collegial | 2019 – 2025 | 6 years | ending not on record | |
| Albert Rösti · collegial | 2023 – in office | in office since 2023 | still in office | |
| Élisabeth Baume-Schneider · collegial | 2023 – in office | in office since 2023 | still in office | |
| Beat Jans · collegial | 2024 – in office | in office since 2024 | still in office | |
| Martin Pfister · collegial | 2025 – in office | in office since 2025 | still in office |
123 rulers, 0 with terms dated as terms. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
40,800 km² in 1848, 40,600 km² in 2018; at its largest 41,000 km² in 1878. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
flag, undatedCivil Ensign of Switzerland · Public domain .svg/120px-Civil_Ensign_of_Switzerland_(Pantone).svg.png)
flag, undatedCivil Ensign of Switzerland (Pantone) · Public domain .svg/120px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Switzerland_(Pantone).svg.png)
coat of arms, undatedCoat of Arms of Switzerland (Pantone) · Public domain 
flag, from 1889Flag of Switzerland · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Switzerland_(Pantone).svg.png)
flag, from 1889Flag of Switzerland (Pantone) · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1889Coat of arms of Switzerland · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1800 – 189979 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Le Corbusier · artist · 1887 – 1965
- Carl Jung · artist · 1875 – 1961
- Holmium · discovery · 1878
- Jean Piaget · scientist · 1896 – 1980
- Karl Jaspers · scientist · 1883 – 1969
- Paul Klee · artist · 1879 – 1940
- Charles-Édouard Guillaume · scientist · 1861 – 1938
- Berne Convention · treaty · 1886
and 71 more in the atlas.
1900 – 199985 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- World Wide Web · discovery · 1989
- Sepp Blatter · politician · 1936 – present
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt · artist · 1921 – 1990
- Felix Bloch · scientist · 1905 – 1983
- Treaty of Lausanne · treaty · 1923
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade · treaty · 1947
- Simonetta Sommaruga · ruler · 1960 – present
- Micheline Calmy-Rey · ruler · 1945 – present
and 77 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20993 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Higgs boson · discovery · 2012
- COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland · plague · 2020
- Zug massacre · atrocity · 2001
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood178 years
stood longer than 59% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held41,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 32% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 12 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1830 – 2044, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1871, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q39 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.