1848 in Switzerland
Events from '''1848 in Switzerland.'''
Incumbents
- Federal Council :
- *Ulrich Ochsenbein
- *Jonas Furrer
- *Josef Munzinger
- *Henri Druey
- *Friedrich Frey-Herosé
- *Wilhelm Matthias Naeff
- *Stefano Franscini
Events
- February – Federal troops leave Zug
- February – Pro-republic uprising in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Le Locle, and Val-de-Travers
- 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
- July – A Swiss constitutional referendum is held in July and August in the Cantons
- 12 September – New constitution declared accepted with 15 1/2 Cantons accepting, 6 1/2 voting against
- 6 November – Nationalrat and Ständerat meet in Bern for the first time
- 16 November – Seven members of Federal Council appointed. New constitution comes into force.
- The position of President of the Swiss Confederation is created, with the inaugural president being Jonas Furrer
Births
- January 4 – Heinrich Suter, historian
- April 21/23 – Carl Rüedi, pulmonologist
- June 30 – Paul Zweifel, gynecologist and physiologist
- September 1 – Auguste Forel, myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist
- October 24 – William Foster Apthorp, musician
- November 12 – Eduard Müller, politician
- November 28 – Paul Charles Dubois, neuropathologist
- Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, painter, designer, watercolorist, and engraver
- Adolfo Kind, chemical engineer and one of the fathers of Italian skiing
- Andrew Mattei, Swiss-Italian winemaker
- Auguste Baud-Bovy, painter
Deaths
- June 27 – Heinrich Zschokke, author and reformer