1853 in Switzerland

← 1852 1851 1850 1853 in Switzerland → 1854 1855 1856
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	History of Switzerland Timeline of Swiss history List of years 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)