History of Watchmaking

The Genevan watchmaker Jean-Moïse Pouzait invented the watch with independent seconds, precursor of the chronograph.

World history

The United States Declaration of Independence.
Foundation of San Francisco.

Swiss history

The "Society for the Encouragement of the Arts" was founded in Geneva on an initiative by the watchmaker Louis Faizan and the physicist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. Its vocation was to encourage the Fabrique to progress by staging competitions, awarding prizes and publishing inventions. It later became the "Society of the Arts".
1777. General alliance between Switzerland and France under Louis XVI.

Art and Culture

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.