1853 in Switzerland
# 1853 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)
