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Geneva History
The traces of the first human civilization in Geneva were discovered on the shore of the Lake Leman around the 300 BC. The hill of old city was first inhabited around the 1000BC. The small Celtic tribe defended it when the Rome conquered Geneva. The attack of Helvetti was drove out Julius Caesar in 58 BC. Around the 400 AD when the Roman Empire was at its height, it becomes a bishopric. In the 443, the region was settled by the Germanic tribe, the Burgundians, which were defeated later by the France. Geneva become an important centre when its fairs reaching their peak in the 15th century. At the time of its gravest dander during the first third of the 16th century, the city' autonomy was saved by the intervention or the Swiss cantons of Fribourg and Bern. The refugees take part and helped to redress the economy, which had been in recession since the fairs had gone into decline at the end of the preceding century. The 18th century was a period of enormous prosperity when industries - horology is the best known - business and banking flourished. Rousseau was born in Geneva in 1712 and Voltaire lived there from 1775 to 1778. On the other hand, Geneva was shaken by political and social agitation. The 1792 revolution of Geneva brought down the aristocratic government of the Ancient Regime an proclaimed the political equality. The France annexed Geneva in 1798 and made it the administrative centre of the department of Leman. The Geneva restored its freedom in December 31 in 1813 after the defeate of Napoleon’s armies. Genevan, Henri Dunant, the International Committee of the Red Cross was founded in 1864, the first of many international organizations to settle there.
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