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1848 in Switzerland

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Events from 1848 in Switzerland.

Contents

Events

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

    • February

  • Federal troops leave Zug

    • April

  • Federal troops leave Wallis

    • June

  • June 6-A Swiss constitutional referendum is held

    • Incumbents

    See: List of 1848 office-holders in Switzerland

    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.

    References

    1848 in Switzerland Wikipedia
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