1853 in Switzerland
The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1853 in Switzerland.
Incumbents
- Federal Council:
- *Ulrich Ochsenbein
- *Jonas Furrer
- *Josef Munzinger
- *Henri Druey
- *Friedrich Frey-Herosé
- *Wilhelm Matthias Naeff
- *Stefano Franscini
Events
- February 4 – Johann Jakob Speiser, Achilles Bischoff, and Karl Geigy establish the Swiss Central Railway
- Tissot, a Swiss watch company, is founded
- The Swiss Northern Railway merges with the Lake Constance and Rheinfall Railways to create the Swiss Northeastern Railway
- Revue Thommen is established under the name Waldenburg
- Diplomatic relations are established by the United States
- Grunerite is discovered and named after Emmanuel-Louis Gruner, the Swiss-French chemist who first analyzed it
Births
- March 14 – Ferdinand Hodler, painter
- September 14 – Marc-Émile Ruchet, French-speaking politician
- December 11 – Jacob Wackernagel, linguist, Indo-Europeanist, and scholar of Sanskrit
- Christian Klucker, mountain guide
- Luigi Rossi, painter
Deaths
- September 15 – Théophile Voirol, general in the French Republican Army
- November 28 – Hans Bendel, painter