Swiss peasant war of 1653
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title:
Swiss peasant war of 1653
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The Swiss peasant war of 1653 was a popular revolt in the Old Swiss Confederacy at the time of the Ancien Régime. A devaluation of Bernese money caused a tax revolt that spread from the Entlebuch valley in the Canton of Lucerne to the Emmental valley in the Canton of Bern and then to the cantons of Solothurn and Basel and also to the Aargau. The population of the countryside demanded fiscal relief from their ruling authorities, the city councils of these cantons' capitals. When their demands wer
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Failed peasant revolution in Switzerland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_peasant_war_of_1653
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2023-11-18T13:17:46Z
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