1853 in Switzerland
The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1853 in Switzerland.
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Incumbents
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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)
- 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)
References
- "Tissot Official Website: History". Tissot. Archived from the original on 2013-06-20. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
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