Switzerland

Jachiam Bütz-Janzun builds the Chesa Veglia farmhouse in St. Moritz Chesa Veglia

Les Trois Rois opens at Basel on the Rhine — among the oldest city hotels in Europe

Des Bergues opens in Geneva, often called the first purpose-built luxury hotel in Europe

David Sprüngli founds David Sprüngli & Son in Zurich Confiserie Sprüngli

The Baur au Lac opens on the lake at Zurich

The Kronenhof opens at Pontresina

The Mont Cervin opens at Zermatt, one of the first hotels of the high Alps

Johannes Badrutt takes the twelve-bed Pension Faller and makes it the Engadiner Kulm

The Beau-Rivage opens at Ouchy, Lausanne

The Victoria opens at Interlaken; it merges with the Jungfrau in 1899

The Beau-Rivage opens on the Geneva lakefront

The Quellenhof opens at Bad Ragaz above the Tamina gorge

The Grand Hotel National opens at Lucerne; César Ritz manages it from 1878

The Eden Roc opens at Ascona on Lake Maggiore

The Bürgenstock resort begins above Lake Lucerne

Le Richemond opens in Geneva under the Armleder family

The Kulm installs the first electric light in Switzerland

The Zermatterhof opens, built by the commune of Zermatt itself

The Riffelalp opens above Zermatt at 2,222 metres, with Europe's highest tramway

Caspar Badrutt opens Badrutt's Palace in St. Moritz on 29 July, architects Chiodera and Tschudi Badrutt's Palace

The Dolder Grand opens above Zurich as a curhouse

The Park Hotel opens at Vitznau on Lake Lucerne

Le Mirador opens above Lake Geneva at Le Mont-Pèlerin

Villa Honegg opens above Lake Lucerne on the Bürgenstock

Robert Steffen, a village schoolteacher, buys land at Gstaad after a railway is routed through the hamlet

The Montreux Palace opens on Lake Geneva

The Waldhaus opens at Sils Maria, held by the same family since

Suvretta House opens above St. Moritz

The Bellevue Palace opens in Bern beside the federal parliament

claimed The Carlton opens at St. Moritz, built as a summer residence for Nicholas II ⚑ the imperial link is house tradition

Badrutt's Palace opens Europe's first indoor tennis courts Badrutt's Palace

The Gstaad Palace opens above the village

The Gstaad Palace opens on 8 December as the Royal-Hôtel and Winter Palace — 165 rooms, 70 with their own bathroom

A men's tennis tournament is held on the Palace clay courts; it becomes the Swiss Open

Badrutt's Palace installs the Engadin's first hotel lift and first telephone box Badrutt's Palace

Castello del Sole opens at Ascona on its own farm

Hans Badrutt buys the Chesa Veglia to save it from demolition Chesa Veglia

Switzerland's first Olympic-sized outdoor pool is built in the Gstaad Palace grounds

The Tschuggen opens at Arosa

Cellular-therapy research begins at Clinique La Prairie, Montreux Clinique La Prairie

Swiss Deluxe Hotels is founded — a national association of first-class houses Swiss Deluxe Hotels

Chesa Veglia opens as a restaurant on Helen Badrutt’s idea, seven years after Hans bought the farmhouse to stop its demolition Chesa Veglia

Hans Badrutt converts the Chesa Veglia farmhouse into a dance bar and restaurant — après-ski begins Badrutt's Palace

Chesa Veglia opens on 28 December on Helen Badrutt's idea — après-ski is born Chesa Veglia

Ernst and Silvia Scherz take over the Gstaad Palace; they buy all the shares in 1947

Swiss national gold is stored in the bunker beneath the Gstaad Palace during the war

The Eagle Club is founded on the Wasserngrat above Gstaad, the Earl of Warwick its first president and the Aga Khan among its founding members Eagle Club

The Earl of Warwick founds the Eagle Club on the Wasserngrat above Gstaad Eagle Club

Le Rosay and the Gstaad winter season draw the international set to the Palace

Marlene Dietrich performs at the Gstaad Palace on 15 February; the gala season makes the hotel's name

Jet Aviation is founded at Basel; completions work follows from 1977 Jet Aviation Basel

⚑ derived The Gstaad Palace opens GreenGo, the village’s first real nightclub, its dance floor built over an indoor pool — ⚑ the year is derived from a 2017 account calling the club forty-five years old and is not sourced directly GreenGo

GreenGo opens beneath the Gstaad Palace on 22 January, interior by Teo Jakob — unchanged since GreenGo

Henri Chenot first applies the method at the general hospital in Cannes Chenot Method

Peter Sellers and Blake Edwards film part of The Return of the Pink Panther in GreenGo, and Sellers falls into the pool under the dance floor GreenGo

Chenot Palace Merano opens Chenot Palace

Cellap Laboratoire founded at Le Mont-sur-Lausanne Cellcosmet

Roland C. Pfister founds Cellap Laboratoire at Le Mont-sur-Lausanne; its treatments are at first available only to patients at his own clinic Cellcosmet

Valmont is founded in Switzerland and begins licensing its protocol to hotels Valmont

Peter Zumthor's thermal baths open at Vals; the hotel takes the 7132 name in 2013

Alberto Pinto’s studio takes its first aircraft commission Alberto Pinto Interior Design — Aviation

Michel Reybier opens La Réserve Geneva, designed by Jacques Garcia on the cues of African lodges La Réserve Hotels

The Badrutt family bequeaths two-thirds of the Palace to its director, Hans Wiedemann Badrutt's Palace

Michel Reybier buys La Réserve Genève and begins the collection La Réserve Hotels

The Alpina Gstaad opens — the first new hotel in Gstaad in a century

The Chedi opens at Andermatt, the first five-star hotel in the Urseren valley

La Réserve Paris opens at 42 avenue Gabriel — the only French-owned Palace hotel La Réserve Hotels

Ultima opens its first house at Gstaad Ultima Collection

The Contreras family opens Il Sereno on Lake Como after Le Sereno on St Barths Sereno Hotels

Ultima Gstaad opens in December on the site of the demolished Sport Hotel Rutti — the first house of a company that would list on an exchange three years later Ultima Collection

The Waldhotel opens at Bürgenstock as a medical hotel by Matteo Thun

Ultima Capital goes public on the BX Swiss exchange under the ticker ULTIMA, holding the chalets its guests can occupy and cannot buy Ultima Collection

Henri Chenot retires, appointing Dr George Gaitanos Chenot Method

Chenot Palace opens at Weggis on Lake Lucerne, carrying Henri Chenot's method

La Réserve Eden au Lac Zurich opens on 8 January after a two-year restoration by Philippe Starck La Réserve Hotels

Both founders leave Ultima’s executive management on 21 December with immediate effect; Petar Krstic, six years with Aman and lately the opener of Aman New York, takes over Ultima Collection

Beiersdorf agrees to buy Clinique La Prairie's Montreux real estate La Prairie Spa