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1853 in Switzerland

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The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1853 in Switzerland.

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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
  • 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

    1853 in Switzerland Wikipedia
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