1853 in Switzerland

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 founded
 * 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)
 * 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)