1848 in Switzerland

Decades:	1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s;
See also:	History of Switzerland; Timeline of Swiss history; List of years in Switzerland;

Events from 1848 in Switzerland.

Incumbents edit

February – Federal troops leave Zug
February – Pro-republic uprising in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Le Locle, and Val-de-Travers^[1]
1 March – Pro-republic forces overthrow the Council of State of the Canton of Neuchatel, declare the Canton a republic
April – Federal troops leave Wallis
27 June – Draft constitution accepted by the Swiss Diet^[1]
July – A Swiss constitutional referendum is held in July and August in the Cantons^[2]
12 September – New constitution declared accepted with 15 1/2 Cantons accepting, 6 1/2 voting against^[2]^[1]
6 November – Nationalrat and Ständerat meet in Bern for the first time^[1]
16 November – Seven members of Federal Council appointed.^[1] New constitution comes into force.^[2]
The position of President of the Swiss Confederation is created, with the inaugural president being Jonas Furrer

January 4 – Heinrich Suter, historian (died 1922)
April 21/23 – Carl Rüedi, pulmonologist (died 1901)
June 30 – Paul Zweifel, gynecologist and physiologist (died 1927)
September 1 – Auguste Forel, myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (died 1931)
October 24 – William Foster Apthorp, musician (died 1913)
November 12 – Eduard Müller, politician (died 1919)^[3]
November 28 – Paul Charles Dubois, neuropathologist (died 1918)
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, painter, designer, watercolorist, and engraver (died 1934)
Adolfo Kind, chemical engineer and one of the fathers of Italian skiing (died 1907)
Andrew Mattei, Swiss-Italian winemaker (died 1931)
Auguste Baud-Bovy, painter (died 1949)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Oechsli, Wilhelm (1922). History of Switzerland, 1499-1914. The University Press. pp. 395-400.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Bundesverfassung (BV)". hls-dhs-dss.ch (in German). Retrieved 2023-03-20.
^ "Eduard Müller - Federal Council". www.admin.ch. Retrieved 23 January 2024.