1852 in Switzerland
# 1852 in Switzerland

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