1848 in Switzerland

Events from 1848 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

 * Federal Council (starting from November 16):
 * Ulrich Ochsenbein
 * Jonas Furrer (President)
 * Josef Munzinger
 * Henri Druey
 * Friedrich Frey-Herosé
 * Wilhelm Matthias Naeff
 * Stefano Franscini

Events

 * February – Federal troops leave Zug
 * February – Pro-republic uprising in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Le Locle, and Val-de-Travers
 * 1 March – Pro-republic forces overthrow the Council of State of the Canton of Neuchatel, declare the Canton a republic
 * April – Federal troops leave Wallis
 * 27 June – Draft constitution accepted by the Swiss Diet
 * July – A Swiss constitutional referendum is held in July and August in the Cantons
 * 12 September – New constitution declared accepted with 15 1/2 Cantons accepting, 6 1/2 voting against
 * 6 November – Nationalrat and Ständerat meet in Bern for the first time
 * 16 November – Seven members of Federal Council appointed. New constitution comes into force.
 * The position of President of the Swiss Confederation is created, with the inaugural president being Jonas Furrer

Births

 * January 4 – Heinrich Suter, historian (died 1922)
 * April 21/23 – Carl Rüedi, pulmonologist (died 1901)
 * June 30 – Paul Zweifel, gynecologist and physiologist (died 1927)
 * September 1 – Auguste Forel, myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (died 1931)
 * October 24 – William Foster Apthorp, musician (died 1913)
 * November 12 – Eduard Müller, politician (died 1919)
 * November 28 – Paul Charles Dubois, neuropathologist (died 1918)
 * Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, painter, designer, watercolorist, and engraver (died 1934)
 * Adolfo Kind, chemical engineer and one of the fathers of Italian skiing (died 1907)
 * Andrew Mattei, Swiss-Italian winemaker (died 1931)
 * Auguste Baud-Bovy, painter (died 1949)

Deaths

 * June 27 – Heinrich Zschokke, author and reformer (born 1771)