Valbirse is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

After Napoleon's defeat and the Congress of Vienna, Bévilard was assigned to the Canton of Bern in 1815.

[4] The village was generally agrarian until the Basel-Delémont-Biel railroad built a station between Bévilard and Malleray in 1877.

The convenient link to the transportation network encouraged several precision machining and watch making factories to set up in the municipality.

The watch industry was a major source of income and led to a growing population in the municipality until the 1970s.

Beginning in the 1970s, competition from cheaper electronic watches forced many Swiss watchmakers out of business and the population in Bévilard dropped.

In 1367, the Prince-Bishop of Basel, Johann von Vienne, sent troops to try to force Biel to break a burgrecht treaty that they had entered into with the city of Bern.

Over the following centuries, the provost of Moutier-Grandval Abbey gradually acquired most of the rights and lands in the village.

After the secularization of the Abbey following the adoption of the Protestant Reformation in Bern, during the end of the 16th century Malleray became part of a bailiwick under the diocese of Basel.

After Napoleon's defeat and the Congress of Vienna, Malleray was assigned to the Canton of Bern in 1815.

After Napoleon's defeat and the Congress of Vienna, Pontenet was assigned to the Canton of Bern in 1815.