2020 in Switzerland explained

Events in the year 2020 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

- 9 February – Scheduled date for the first voting in the 2020 Swiss referendums 1 to 2 February – Scheduled date for the 2020 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, to be held in Dübendorf
28 April to 3 May – Scheduled date for the road cycling stage race 2020 Tour de Romandie, to be held in Switzerland
25 August 2020 – Raphaël Domjan jumps out of the SolarStratos HB-SXA solar plane in Payerne, Switzerland, with test pilot Miguel Iturmendi in command of the plane, the first jump off of an electric plane and the first free fall in solar history. He dropped several hundred meters and reached a speed of 150kmh.^[1]

1 January – Martin Bundi, historian and politician (born 1932)^[2]
7 January – Fritz Hans Schweingruber, dendrochronologist (born 1936)^[3]
19 January – Urs Egger, film director (born 1953)^[4]
24 January – Aenne Goldschmidt, expressionist dancer and choreographer (born 1920)^[5]
18 October – René Felber, politician (born 1933)^[6]
16 December – Flavio Cotti, politician (born 1939)^[7]

News: Parachutist makes world's first jump from solar-powered plane. Reuters . August 25, 2020. www.reuters.com.
Web site: Ex-Nationalratspräsident Martin Bundi gestorben . srf.ch . 3 January 2020 . de . 22 January 2020.
Web site: Fritz Hans Schweingruber-Stalder . trauer.nzz.ch . de . 22 January 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200111105317/https://trauer.nzz.ch/traueranzeige/fritz-hans-schweingruber-stalder/anzeigen . 11 January 2020 . dead .
Web site: "Das Wunder von Wörgl"-Regisseur stirbt mit 66 Jahren . blick.de . de . 22 January 2020.
News: Anna Goldschmidt-Michel. 12 April 2020.
Web site: René Felber . www.admin.ch . 8 February 2024 . en.
Web site: Flavio Cotti . www.admin.ch . 6 February 2024 . en.