1848 in Switzerland
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Events from 1848 in Switzerland.
Incumbents[]
- Federal Council:
Events[]
- The position of President of the Swiss Confederation is created, with the inaugural president being Jonas Furrer
January[]
February[]
- Federal troops leave Zug
- Pro-republic uprising in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Le Locle, and Val-de-Travers[1]
March[]
- 1 March-Pro-republic forces overthrow the Council of State, declare Switzerland a republic
April[]
- Federal troops leave Wallis
May[]
June[]
- 6 June-A Swiss constitutional referendum is held
- 27 June-Draft constitution accepted by the Swiss Diet[1]
July[]
August[]
September[]
- 12 September-New constitution declared in force with 15 1/2 Cantons accepting, 6 1/2 voting against[1]
October[]
November[]
- 6 November-Nationalrat and Ständerat meet in Bern for the first time[1]
- 16 November-Seven members of Federal Council appointed[1]
December[]
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, )
- Andrew Mattei, a Swiss-Italian winemaker (d. 1931)
- Auguste Baud-Bovy, a painter (d. )
- January 4-Heinrich Suter, a historian (d. March 17 )
- April 21/23-Carl Rüedi, a pulmonologist (d. June 17, )
- June 30-Paul Zweifel, a gynecologist and physiologist (d. August 13, )
- September 1-Auguste Forel, a myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (d. July 27, 1931)
- October 24-William Foster Apthorp, a musician (d. February 19, )
- November 12-Eduard Müller, a politician (d. November 9, )
- November 28-Paul Charles Dubois, a neuropathologist (d. November 4, )
Deaths[]
- June 27-Heinrich Zschokke, an author and reformer (b. March 22, 1771)
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Categories:
- 1848 in Switzerland
- Years of the 19th century in Switzerland