1854 in Switzerland

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
 * 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
 * ETH Zurich (The Federal Polytechnic Institute) is establsihed.

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)
 * 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)