1848 in Switzerland
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Events from 1848 in Switzerland.
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Incumbents
- Federal Council (starting from November 16):
Events
- February â Federal troops leave Zug
- February â Pro-republic uprising in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Le Locle, and Val-de-Travers[1]
- 1 March â Pro-republic forces overthrow the Council of State of the Canton of Neuchatel, declare the Canton a republic
- April â Federal troops leave Wallis
- 27 June â Draft constitution accepted by the Swiss Diet[1]
- July â A Swiss constitutional referendum is held in July and August in the Cantons[2]
- 12 September â New constitution declared accepted with 15 1/2 Cantons accepting, 6 1/2 voting against[2][1]
- 6 November â Nationalrat and Ständerat meet in Bern for the first time[1]
- 16 November â Seven members of Federal Council appointed.[1] New constitution comes into force.[2]
- The position of President of the Swiss Confederation is created, with the inaugural president being Jonas Furrer
Births
- January 4 â Heinrich Suter, historian (died 1922)
- April 21/23 â Carl Rüedi, pulmonologist (died 1901)
- June 30 â Paul Zweifel, gynecologist and physiologist (died 1927)
- September 1 â Auguste Forel, myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (died 1931)
- October 24 â William Foster Apthorp, musician (died 1913)
- November 12 â Eduard Müller, politician (died 1919)[3]
- November 28 â Paul Charles Dubois, neuropathologist (died 1918)
- Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, painter, designer, watercolorist, and engraver (died 1934)
- Adolfo Kind, chemical engineer and one of the fathers of Italian skiing (died 1907)
- Andrew Mattei, Swiss-Italian winemaker (died 1931)
- Auguste Baud-Bovy, painter (died 1949)
Deaths
- June 27 â Heinrich Zschokke, author and reformer (born 1771)
