1854 in Switzerland
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The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1854 in Switzerland.
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Incumbents
Events
- August 27 â Alfred Wills ascends the Wetterhorn, starting the golden age of alpinism[1]
- December 19 â The Basel SBB railway station is opened
- The West Switzerland Company is formed
- The United Bank of Switzerland is formed in the form of the Swiss Bank Corporation when six private banking firms pool their resources[2]
- ETH Zurich (The Federal Polytechnic Institute) is established.[3]
Art and literature
- The fables of Jean Jacques Porchat are reissued under the new title Fables et paraboles
Births
- March 30 â Alfred Ilg, engineer (d. 1916)
- April 19 â Emma Pieczynska-Reichenbach, abolitionist and feminist (d. 1927)
- August 2 â Eugène Ruffy, politician (d. 1919)[4]
- August 30 â Edmond Louis Budry, hymn writer (d. 1932)
- September 15 â Traugott Sandmeyer, chemist (d. 1922)
- September 23 â Charles Soret, physicist and chemist (d. 1904)
- September 24 â Robert Keller, botanist (d. 1939)
Deaths
- May 12 â Melchior Berri, architect (b. 1801)
- October 22 â Jeremias Gotthelf, novelist (b. 1797)
- November 18 â Alberich Zwyssig, composer of the Swiss Psalm (b. 1808)
- John James Chalon, painter (b. 1778)