14th century in the Old Swiss Confederacy

folk hero of Switzerland

1315 battle during the creation of the Swiss Confederacy

1386 battle between old Switzerland confederation and Habsburg

legendary oath of the Old Swiss Confederacy, taken on the Rütli, a meadow above Lake Uri near Seelisberg

battle in 1339 between Bern and Freibur

1388 Swiss victory over Austria

aspect of Swiss history in the late Middle Ages

The Pfaffenbrief is a contract dated to October 7, 1370, between six states of the Old Swiss Confederacy, Zürich, Lucerne, Zug, Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden (with Bern and Glarus missing).

thumb|Agnes of Austria (1281–1364)|Agnes of Austria negotiated a peace between Bern and Fribourg The Gümmenenkrieg was a war between the emergent city-states of Bern and Fribourg in 1331-33 in what is now Switzerland. The war pitted Bern and the new Swiss Confederation against the Habsburg-supported city of Fribourg and local nobles. It was also the first in a series of battles that brought the Habsburgs and Fribourg into prominence in the County of Burgundy. The war ended without resolving anything and led to other wars between Bern and Fribourg.

1380 battle

thumb|120px|Coat of arms of Neu-Kyburg, replacing the black field of the original coat of arms with the red of the House of Habsburg. The Burgdorferkrieg () or Kyburgerkrieg () was a war in 1383–84 between the counts of Neu-Kyburg and the city of Bern for supremacy in the County of Burgundy in what is now Switzerland.