1848 in Switzerland

1848 in Switzerland

Years

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

• June 6-A Swiss constitutional referendum is held

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