1849 in Switzerland

The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1849 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * A uniform postal service, the Swiss Post, is introduced.
 * The Museum of Cultures is established

Births

 * January 30 – Josef Anton Schobinger, politician (died 1911)
 * March 28 – August Fetscherin, physician (died 1882)
 * April 12 – Albert Heim, geologist (died 1937)
 * April 24 – Alfred Kleiner, physicist (died 1916)
 * May 19 – Adrien Lachenal, politician (died 1918)
 * May 22 – Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (died 1913)
 * July 13 – Eugen Huber, jurist and creator of the Swiss Civil Code (died 1923)
 * December 29 – Otto Stoll, linguist and ethnologist (died 1922)

No known date

 * Albert Butz, Swiss-American inventor and businessman (died 1905)

Deaths

 * January 6 – Johann Caspar von Orelli, Swiss classical scholar (born 1787)
 * May 18 – Samuel Amsler, Swiss engraver (b. 1791)
 * August 12 – Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American politician (born 1761)
 * October 25 – Édouard Bovet, Swiss watchmaker (born 1797)
 * November 13 – Marie Manning, Swiss domestic servant and murderer (born 1821)
 * November 14 – Karl Adams, Swiss mathematician (born 1811)
 * December 27 – Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Swiss animal and landscape painter (born 1767)

No known date

 * Frédéric Fregevize, Swiss landscape painter (born 1770)