Events from 1848 in Switzerland.
Incumbents Federal Council (starting from November 16): Ulrich Ochsenbein Jonas Furrer (President) Josef Munzinger Henri Druey Friedrich Frey-Herosé Wilhelm Matthias Naeff Stefano Franscini
Events
February – Federal troops leave Zug February – Pro-republic uprising in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Le Locle, and Val-de-Travers 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 July – A Swiss constitutional referendum is held in July and August in the Cantons 12 September – New constitution declared accepted with 15 1/2 Cantons accepting, 6 1/2 voting against 6 November – Nationalrat and Ständerat meet in Bern for the first time 16 November – Seven members of Federal Council appointed. New constitution comes into force. The position of President of the Swiss Confederation is created, with the inaugural president being Jonas Furrer
Births
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) 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)
Deaths
June 27 – Heinrich Zschokke, author and reformer (born 1771)
References
External links About the civil war