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1856 in Switzerland

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The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1856 in Switzerland.

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Events

  • November 7 - Eterna is founded
  • Ernest Borel is founded
  • Carl Meissner discovers Conospermum mitchellii
  • A revolt by Neuchâtel royalists sparks the Neuchâtel Crisis
  • Credit Suisse is founded
  • Gregory Haas and John Frey, two Swiss diocesan priests, arrive on Mt. Calvary after leaving Switzerland and establish a Capuchin Order in the United States
  • The first part of the Olten–Lausanne railway line is opened
  • Samuel Francis is relocated to Geneva to oversee the emigration of Latter-day Saints to the United States from Switzerland
  • Switzerland opens a diplomatic consulate in Melbourne, Australia
  • Arnold Escher von der Linth becomes a professor of geology at the École Polytechnique in Zurich

    • Births

  • April 7 - Ferdinand Schiess, recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1884)
  • May 23 - Hermann Sahli, internist (d. 1933)
  • December 6 - Louise Catherine Breslau, artist (d. 1927)
  • December 9 - Ernst Brenner, politician (d. 1911)
  • December 11 - Paul Sarasin, naturalist (d. 1929)

    • Deaths

  • William Bally, sculptor (b. c. 1799)

    • References

    1856 in Switzerland Wikipedia
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