Events during the year 1983 in Switzerland.
Incumbents Federal Council: Pierre Aubert (President) Leon Schlumpf Alphons Egli Rudolf Friedrich Willi Ritschard (resigned 16 October) Georges-André Chevallaz (resigned 31 December) Kurt Furgler Otto Stich (elected 7 December) Jean-Pascal Delamuraz (elected 7 December)
Events 28 May – The Green Party of Switzerland is established. The UCI Track Cycling World Championships take place in Zürich.
Births
24 June – Valeria Spälty, curler
Deaths 25 June – Alberto Ginastera, composer (born 1916 in Argentina) 10 September – Felix Bloch, Swiss-American physicist and Nobel physics laureate (born 1905) 16 October – Willi Ritschard, politician (born 1918)
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