1853 in Switzerland

none March 2023 1853 The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1853 in Switzerland. Incumbents Federal Council: Ulrich Ochsenbein Jonas Furrer Josef Munzinger Henri Druey Friedrich Frey-Herosé Wilhelm Matthias Naeff (President) Stefano Franscini Events February 4 – Johann Jakob Speiser, Achilles Bischoff, and Karl Geigy establish the Swiss Central Railway Tissot, a Swiss watch company, is foundedhttp://www.tissot.ch/?mod_communication/chapter_history Tissot Official Website: History Tissot 2009-09-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20121203004108/http://www.tissot.ch/?mod_communication/chapter_history 2012-12-03 live 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)Ferdinand Hodler https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095940137?rskey=VpxaO4&result=4 Oxford Reference 19 February 2024 en 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 Category:Years of the 19th century in Switzerland Switzerland