1854 in Switzerland

← 1853 1852 1851 1854 in Switzerland → 1855 1856 1857
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	Other events of 1854 Timeline of Swiss history

The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1854 in Switzerland.

Incumbents[]

• Federal Council:
  • Ulrich Ochsenbein then Jakob Stämpfli
  • Jonas Furrer
  • Josef Munzinger
  • Henri Druey
  • Friedrich Frey-Herosé (President)
  • Wilhelm Matthias Naeff
  • Stefano Franscini

Events[]

• August 27 - Alfred Wills ascends the Wetterhorn, starting the golden age of alpinism^[1]
• December 19 - The Basel SBB railway station is opened
• The West Switzerland Company is formed
• The United Bank of Switzerland is formed in the form of the Swiss Bank Corporation when six private banking firms pool their resources^[2]
• Roads and canals taken in hand were taken under federal control

Art and literature[]

• The fables of Jean Jacques Porchat are reissued under the new title Fables et paraboles

Births[]

• March 30 - Alfred Ilg, engineer (d. )
• April 19 - Emma Pieczynska-Reichenbach, abolitionist and feminist (d. )
• August 2 - Eugène Ruffy, politician (d. )
• August 30 - Edmond Louis Budry, hymn writer (d. 1932)
• September 15 - Traugott Sandmeyer, chemist (d. )
• September 23 - Charles Soret, physicist and chemist (d. )
• September 24 - Robert Keller, botanist (d. )

Deaths[]

• May 12 - Melchior Berri, architect (b. 1801)
• October 22 - Jeremias Gotthelf, novelist (b. 1797)
• November 18 - Alberich Zwyssig, composer of the Swiss Psalm (b. 1808)
• John James Chalon, painter (b. 1778)

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