1848 in Switzerland
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Events from 1848 in Switzerland.
Incumbents[edit]
- Federal Council (starting from November 16):
Events[edit]
- February – Federal troops leave Zug
- February – Pro-republic uprising in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Le Locle, and Val-de-Travers[1]
- 1 March – Pro-republic forces overthrow the Council of State of the Canton of Neuchatel, declare the Canton a republic
- April – Federal troops leave Wallis
- 27 June – Draft constitution accepted by the Swiss Diet[1]
- July – A Swiss constitutional referendum is held in July and August in the Cantons[2]
- 12 September – New constitution declared accepted with 15 1/2 Cantons accepting, 6 1/2 voting against[2][1]
- 6 November – Nationalrat and Ständerat meet in Bern for the first time[1]
- 16 November – Seven members of Federal Council appointed.[1] New constitution comes into force.[2]
- The position of President of the Swiss Confederation is created, with the inaugural president being Jonas Furrer
Births[edit]
- January 4 – Heinrich Suter, historian (died 1922)
- April 21/23 – Carl Rüedi, pulmonologist (died 1901)
- June 30 – Paul Zweifel, gynecologist and physiologist (died 1927)
- September 1 – Auguste Forel, myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (died 1931)
- October 24 – William Foster Apthorp, musician (died 1913)
- November 12 – Eduard Müller, politician (died 1919)[3]
- November 28 – Paul Charles Dubois, neuropathologist (died 1918)
- Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, painter, designer, watercolorist, and engraver (died 1934)
- Adolfo Kind, chemical engineer and one of the fathers of Italian skiing (died 1907)
- Andrew Mattei, Swiss-Italian winemaker (died 1931)
- Auguste Baud-Bovy, painter (died 1949)
Deaths[edit]
- June 27 – Heinrich Zschokke, author and reformer (born 1771)
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Oechsli, Wilhelm (1922). History of Switzerland, 1499-1914. The University Press. pp. 395-400.
- ^ a b c "Bundesverfassung (BV)". hls-dhs-dss.ch (in German). Retrieved 2023-03-20.
- ^ "Eduard Müller - Federal Council". www.admin.ch. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
