1852 in Switzerland

The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1852 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * Rayon IV stamps are abandoned and become part of Rayon III
 * A treaty is reached between the government of Baden and the Swiss Confederation on how to build Basel Badischer Bahnhof
 * Alfred Escher, among others, helps push through a railway law saying that railway construction and operation should be left to private companies
 * Lavey-Morcles is created by a merger of Morcles and Lavey

Births

 * June 2 – Eduard Spelterini, pioneer of ballooning and aerial photography (d. 1931)
 * June 28 – Hans Huber, composer (d. 1921)
 * July 31 – Hans Renold, engineer (d. 1943)
 * August 11 – Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler, agriculturalist and ethnographer (d. 1935)
 * October 14 – Otto Binswanger, psychiatrist and neurologist (d. 1929)
 * December 11 – Karl Moor, Communist and German spy in World War I (d. 1932)

Deaths

 * François-Louis Cailler, first Swiss chocolate producer (b. 1796)