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)
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