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Two of the new cantons (St Gallen and Graubünden or Grisons) were formerly "associates", while the four others were made up of subject lands (i.e. controlled by other cantons) that had been conquered at different times — Aargau (1415), Thurgau (1460), Ticino (1440, 1500, 1512), and Vaud (1536).
Albert IV (or Albert the Wise) (ca. 1188 – December 13, 1239) was Count of Habsburg in the Aargau and a progenitor of the royal House of Habsburg.
In 1771, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi bought a piece of waste land called Neuhof (New Farm), where he attempted the cultivation of madder.
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The municipalities of Birr and Birrhard are considering a merger on 1 January 2014 into a new municipality which will be known as Birr.
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Birr's economy is dependent mainly on industry: among other businesses, ABB, Alstom and IC Interconnex can be found here.
On 29 February 2008, the three entrepreneurs transferred the brand, acquired in 1999, to the Gustav Gerig AG, an Aargau company, and the product thereby returned to its canton of origin.
In 1967 the manufacturing base of Frey relocated from Aarau to the newly built factory in Buchs in the Canton of Aargau.
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In 1963 the construction of the present headquarters began and the plant was relocated from Aarau to Buchs in the Canton of Aargau.
Conrad I the Elder (died 876) was the count of several counties, most notably the Aargau and Auxerre, around Lake Constance, as well as Paris from 859 to 862/4.
Eleven other cantonal branches have been founded, predominantly in German-speaking Switzerland: Aargau, Basel-Landschaft, Fribourg, Glarus, Lucerne, Schwyz, Solothurn, St. Gallen, Thurgau, Valais, and Zürich.
Upon the merging of the canton of Baden into Aargau in 1803, the district gained the municipalities of Würenlingen, Bellikon, Künten, Remetschwil, Stetten, Mellingen, Wohlenschwil and Mägenwil (from neighbouring districts of the canton of Baden) but had to give up Hüttikon, Oetwil an der Limmat, Dietikon and Schlieren to the Canton of Zurich.
On 24 August 2009 Zonal authorities announced that approximately 540 safe water units were constructed during the past Ethiopian budget year at a cost of over 23 million birr, while another 878 units were repaired.
In 1863 a decision of the Cantonal Council of Aargau naturalized all the gypsies who had settled in Dietwil after fleeing Napoleon's armies in Belarus.
Friedrich Huldreich Erismann, or Fyodor Fyodorovich Erismann (14 November 1842 - 13 November 1915) was a Swiss ophthalmologist and hygienist born in Gontenschwil, canton of Aargau.
At this period, Kildare had partially lost the use of his limbs and his speech, in consequence of a gunshot wound received in an attack upon the O'Carrolls at Birr.
Gloor is a family name from Aargau, a canton in northern Switzerland.
Mind, in his eighth year, was placed at the academy for poor children, which Pestalozzi had previously instituted at Neuenhof, near Bern, Aargau.
At the time of commissioning it was the second largest telescope operating in the world, after Lord Rosse’s 6 foot reflector at Birr, Ireland.
Funds for construction of the building, budgeted at a million Birr, was provided by the woreda and Helvidius, a non-governmental organization.
He was born in Birr Barracks, Crinkill, King's County now County Offaly, Ireland, where his father (also named Henry George Farmer, d. 1900) was serving in the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment of the British Army.
Hürlimann Brewery is a former brewery in Zürich, Switzerland, now owned by the Rheinfelden, Aargau based brewery Feldschlösschen, which is owned by Carlsberg.
Kaiserstuhl AG railway station, on the Winterthur to Koblenz line in the Swiss canton of Aargau
Since he was Eritrean and best friend to two of the top-ranking Eritrean-born Ethiopian Generals, General Aman Andom and General Bereket, Kaleb's case was weighed more than the any other Ethiopian, and he was accused of helping the ELF (Eritrean Liberation Front), and also alleged that he ordered the ruthless interrogations of one of his employees who stole from him more than 150,000,000 Ethiopian birr, which was found later to be a simple fabrication by the junta's cadres.
The main runway was rebuilt in 1997 at a cost of 53 million birr.
Lys Assia (born Rosa Mina Schärer, 3 March 1924, Rupperswil, Aargau, Switzerland) is a Swiss singer who won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956.
Monuments erected in honour of Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien stand in Limerick, Kilrush (County Clare), Clonmel (County Tipperary), Birr (County Offaly), Ennis (County Clare), Glasnevin Cemetery (Dublin), and in St Joseph's Cemetery, Moston, Manchester.
Camcor Records is named for the River Camcor, a popular fishing spot, which runs through the town of Birr.
In 1880 he became the astronomical assistant of Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse at Birr Castle in Birr, Ireland, and remained in that position until the death of the Earl in 1908.
He participated as lecturer in various conferences about Ethnography, in Canarias, Galicia, Navarra, Asturias; and in the Swiss cities of Zurich and Basel and in Aargau for the Federation of Asturian Societies in Switzerland.
The zonal water, mining and energy department announced 15 August 2009 that 84 of the 100 wells planned in Raya Azebo and Alamata woredas have been completed at a cost of 40 million Birr.
This dam ensures the level control of the three lakes of Neuchâtel, Morat and Bienne, an area so called the "Seeland”,as well as the outflow of the Aare river downstream toward Solothurn, Aargau and the junction with Emme River down to the merging with the Rhine River.
Rudolph II (or Rudolph the Kind) (died 10 April 1232) was Count of Habsburg in the Aargau and a progenitor of the royal House of Habsburg.
Finally, the Council of the City of Bern, give up the castle, and the Governor moved in 1720 to the nearby Castle Wildenstein in Veltheim.
Featuring an 80 meter Bailey bridge across the Omo river and five other bridges, this road cost 255 million Birr, and reduced the distance between the Regional capital at Awassa and Mizan Teferi to 400 kilometers.
The ancient noble families of Aargau were maintained in different cantons, and around the World, such Mülinen and Hallwyl in Bern, or abroad such Reinach in Alsace.
In 1836 Friedrich Hünerwadel of Lenzburg pointed out to the government of the canton of Aargau—through which the line had to pass—the importance of the route of a railway from Zurich to Basel for Aargau's commerce and industry.
It crashed near Dürrenäsch, Aargau, on September 4, 1963, shortly after take-off, killing all 80 people on board.
In 2009, Birr skipped the U.S. team to 3 game sweep over the Brazilian national team at the first ever Americas Challenge to determine the second American berth at the 2009 Ford World Men's Curling Championship.
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However, in the playoffs Birr lost 7-2 to Canada in the 1-2 page playoff game, and then lost in the semi-final to Germany's Andy Kapp rink by a score of 6-4 earning Todd and the rest of team USA a bronze medal.
In 1991, he was elected to the National Council, representing the canton of Aargau, and since 1995 he has been the head of the Commission for Transport and Telecommunications.
After studying at Tübingen he first became episcopal notary at Constance, then town clerk at Baden in Aargau in 1489, and at Freiburg in 1493.
William Bulfin (1864–1910) was the fourth son in a family of nine boys and one girl, the children of William Bulfin, of Derrinlough, Birr, County Offaly, Ireland, and Ellen Grogan of Croghan, County Offaly.