2008 in Switzerland

Events during the year 2008 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

 * Federal Council:
 * Pascal Couchepin (president)
 * Moritz Leuenberger
 * Samuel Schmid (until December), then Ueli Maurer
 * Micheline Calmy-Rey
 * Hans-Rudolf Merz
 * Doris Leuthard
 * Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf

Events

 * 27 August – Anna Göldi, who was beheaded in 1782 for witchcraft, is exonorated by the parliament of the Canton of Glarus.
 * 10 September – The Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, is switched on at CERN, in Geneva.

Deaths

 * 29 April – Albert Hofmann, chemist (born 1906)
 * 23 July – Kurt Furgler, politician (born 1924)