1854 in Switzerland
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The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1854 in Switzerland.
Incumbents
- Federal Council:
- Ulrich Ochsenbein then Jakob Stämpfli
- Jonas Furrer
- Josef Munzinger
- Henri Druey
- Friedrich Frey-Herosé (President)
- Wilhelm Matthias Naeff
- Stefano Franscini
Events
- August 27 – Alfred Wills ascends the Wetterhorn, starting the golden age of alpinism[1]
- 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[2]
- ETH Zurich (The Federal Polytechnic Institute) is establsihed.[3]
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)[4]
- 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
- ^ "Wetterhorn during the golden and the post golden age". summitpost.org. 2010. Archived from the original on 2013-12-04. Retrieved 2011-01-26.
- ^ UBS History. Company website. Accessed 2013-06-17. Archived 2013-06-19.
- ^ Schelbert, Leo (21 May 2014). Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. Rowman & Littlefield. p. xxxii. ISBN 978-1-4422-3352-2.
- ^ "Eugène Ruffy". www.admin.ch. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
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