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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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Events

  • August 27 - Alfred Wills ascends the Wetterhorn, starting the golden age of alpinism
  • December 19 - 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
  • Roads and canals taken in hand were taken under federal control

    • Art and literature

  • The fables of Jean Jacques Porchat are reissued under the new title Fables et paraboles

    • Births

  • March 30 - Alfred Ilg, engineer (d. 1916)
  • April 19 - Emma Pieczynska-Reichenbach, abolitionist and feminist (d. 1927)
  • August 2 - Eugène Ruffy, politician (d. 1919)
  • August 30 - Edmond Louis Budry, hymn writer (d. 1932)
  • September 15 - Traugott Sandmeyer, chemist (d. 1922)
  • September 23 - Charles Soret, physicist and chemist (d. 1904)
  • September 24 - Robert Keller, botanist (d. 1939)

    • Deaths

  • May 12 - Melchior Berri, architect (b. 1801)
  • October 22 - Jeremias Gotthelf, novelist (b. 1797)
  • November 18 - Alberich Zwyssig, composer of the Swiss Psalm (b. 1808)
  • John James Chalon, painter (b. 1778)

    • References

    1854 in Switzerland Wikipedia
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