1852 in Switzerland

The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1852 in Switzerland.

← 1851 1850 1849 1852 in Switzerland → 1853 1854 1855
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	History of Switzerland Timeline of Swiss history List of years in Switzerland

Incumbents

• Federal Council:
  • Ulrich Ochsenbein
  • Jonas Furrer (President)
  • Josef Munzinger
  • Henri Druey
  • Friedrich Frey-Herosé
  • Wilhelm Matthias Naeff
  • Stefano Franscini

Events

• Rayon IV stamps are abandoned and become part of Rayon III
• A treaty is reached between the government of Baden and the Swiss Confederation on how to build Basel Badischer Bahnhof
• Alfred Escher, among others, helps push through a railway law saying that railway construction and operation should be left to private companies
• Lavey-Morcles is created by a merger of Morcles and Lavey

Births

• June 2 – Eduard Spelterini, pioneer of ballooning and aerial photography (d. 1931)
• June 28 – Hans Huber, composer (d. 1921)
• July 31 – Hans Renold, engineer (d. 1943)
• August 11 – Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler, agriculturalist and ethnographer (d. 1935)
• October 14 – Otto Binswanger, psychiatrist and neurologist (d. 1929)
• December 11 – Karl Moor, Communist and German spy in World War I (d. 1932)

Deaths

• François-Louis Cailler, first Swiss chocolate producer (b. 1796)