1853 in Switzerland explained

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 (President)
  • 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^[1]
• 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 (d. 1918)^[2]
• September 14 – Marc-Émile Ruchet, French-speaking politician (d. 1912)
• December 11 – Jacob Wackernagel, linguist, Indo-Europeanist, and scholar of Sanskrit (d. 1938)
• Christian Klucker, mountain guide (d. 1928)
• Luigi Rossi, painter (d. 1923)

Deaths

• September 15 – Théophile Voirol, general in the French Republican Army (b. 1781)
• November 28 – Hans Bendel, painter (b. 1814)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tissot Official Website: History . Tissot . 2009-09-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121203004108/http://www.tissot.ch/?mod_communication/chapter_history . 2012-12-03 . live .
2. Web site: Ferdinand Hodler . Oxford Reference . 19 February 2024 . en .