• Source: 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 (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
      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)
      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)


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