1852 in Switzerland
The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1852 in Switzerland.
Incumbents
- Federal Council:
- *Ulrich Ochsenbein
- *Jonas Furrer
- *Josef Munzinger
- *Henri Druey
- *Friedrich Frey-Herosé
- *Wilhelm Matthias Naeff
- *Stefano Franscini
Events
- Rayon IV stamps are abandoned and become part of Rayon III
- A treaty is reached between the government of Baden and the Swiss Confederation on how to build Basel Badischer Bahnhof
- Alfred Escher, among others, helps push through a railway law saying that railway construction and operation should be left to private companies
- Lavey-Morcles is created by a merger of Morcles and Lavey
Births
- June 2 – Eduard Spelterini, pioneer of ballooning and aerial photography
- June 28 – Hans Huber, composer
- July 31 – Hans Renold, engineer
- August 11 – Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler, agriculturalist and ethnographer
- October 14 – Otto Binswanger, psychiatrist and neurologist
- December 11 – Karl Moor, Communist and German spy in World War I