1848 in Switzerland
![]() ![]() |
Years |
align="center" 1848 | 1849 | 1850 |
Events from 1848 in Switzerland.
Events
- The position of President of the Swiss Confederation is created, with the inaugural president being Jonas Furrer
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Incumbents
See: List of 1848 office-holders in Switzerland
Births
- Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, a painter, designer, watercolorist, and engraver (d. 1934)
- Adolfo Kind, a chemical engineer and one of the fathers of Italian skiing (d. August, 1907)
- Andrew Mattei, a Swiss-Italian winemaker (d. 1931)
- Auguste Baud-Bovy, a painter (d. 1949)
- January 4-Heinrich Suter, a historian (d. March 17 1922)
- April 21/23-Carl Rüedi, a pulmonologist (d. June 17, 1901)
- June 30-Paul Zweifel, a gynecologist and physiologist (d. August 13, 1927)
- September 1-Auguste Forel, a myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (d. July 27, 1931)
- October 24-William Foster Apthorp, a musician (d. February 19, 1913)
- November 12-Eduard Müller, a politician (d. November 9, 1919)
- November 28-Paul Charles Dubois, a neuropathologist (d. November 4, 1918)
Deaths
- June 27-Heinrich Zschokke, an author and reformer (b. March 22, 1771)
See also: list of Swiss people.
External links
- de:Feiertage in der Schweiz (Public holidays in Switzerland)
- About the civil war
|