1983 in Switzerland

Events during the year 1983 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

 * Federal Council:
 * Pierre Aubert (President)
 * Leon Schlumpf
 * Alphons Egli
 * Rudolf Friedrich
 * Willi Ritschard (resigned 16 October)
 * Georges-André Chevallaz (resigned 31 December)
 * Kurt Furgler
 * Otto Stich (elected 7 December)
 * Jean-Pascal Delamuraz (elected 7 December)

Events

 * 28 May – The Green Party of Switzerland is established.
 * The UCI Track Cycling World Championships take place in Zürich.

Births

 * 24 June – Valeria Spälty, curler

Deaths

 * 25 June – Alberto Ginastera, composer (born 1916 in Argentina)
 * 10 September – Felix Bloch, Swiss-American physicist and Nobel physics laureate (born 1905)
 * 16 October – Willi Ritschard, politician (born 1918)