1848 in Switzerland

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Events from 1848 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

• Federal Council (starting from November 16th):
  • Ulrich Ochsenbein
  • Jonas Furrer (President)
  • Josef Munzinger
  • Henri Druey
  • Friedrich Frey-Herosé
  • Wilhelm Matthias Naeff
  • Stefano Franscini

Events

• The position of President of the Swiss Confederation is created, with the inaugural president being Jonas Furrer

February

• Federal troops leave Zug
• Pro-republic uprising in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Le Locle, and Val-de-Travers

March

• 1 March-Pro-republic forces overthrow the Council of State of the Canton of Neuchatel, declare the Canton a republic

April

• Federal troops leave Wallis

June

• 27 June-Draft constitution accepted by the Swiss Diet

July

• A Swiss constitutional referendum is held in July and August in the Cantons

September

• 12 September-New constitution declared accepted with 15 1/2 Cantons accepting, 6 1/2 voting against

November

• 6 November-Nationalrat and Ständerat meet in Bern for the first time
• 16 November-Seven members of Federal Council appointed. New constitution comes into force.

Births

• Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, a painter, designer, watercolorist, and engraver (d. 1934)
• Adolfo Kind, a chemical engineer and one of the fathers of Italian skiing (d. August, 1907)
• Andrew Mattei, a Swiss-Italian winemaker (d. 1931)
• Auguste Baud-Bovy, a painter (d. 1949)
• January 4-Heinrich Suter, a historian (d. March 17 1922)
• April 21/23-Carl Rüedi, a pulmonologist (d. June 17, 1901)
• June 30-Paul Zweifel, a gynecologist and physiologist (d. August 13, 1927)
• September 1-Auguste Forel, a myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (d. July 27, 1931)
• October 24-William Foster Apthorp, a musician (d. February 19, 1913)
• November 12-Eduard Müller, a politician (d. November 9, 1919)
• November 28-Paul Charles Dubois, a neuropathologist (d. November 4, 1918)

Deaths

• June 27-Heinrich Zschokke, an author and reformer (b. March 22, 1771)

See also

• List of Swiss people

External links

• About the civil war