1849 in Switzerland

Decades:	1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s;
See also:	History of Switzerland; Timeline of Swiss history; List of years in Switzerland;

The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1849 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

January 30 – Josef Anton Schobinger, politician (died 1911)^[2]
March 28 – August Fetscherin, physician (died 1882)
April 12 – Albert Heim, geologist (died 1937)
April 24 – Alfred Kleiner, physicist (died 1916)
May 19 – Adrien Lachenal, politician (died 1918)^[3]
May 22 – Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (died 1913)^[4]
July 13 – Eugen Huber, jurist and creator of the Swiss Civil Code (died 1923)^[5]
December 29 – Otto Stoll, linguist and ethnologist (died 1922)

January 6 – Johann Caspar von Orelli, Swiss classical scholar (born 1787)
May 18 – Samuel Amsler, Swiss engraver (b. 1791)
August 12 – Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American politician (born 1761)
October 25 – Édouard Bovet, Swiss watchmaker (born 1797)
November 13 – Marie Manning, Swiss domestic servant and murderer (born 1821)^[6]
November 14 – Karl Adams, Swiss mathematician (born 1811)
December 27 – Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Swiss animal and landscape painter (born 1767)

^ Wyss, Arthur (1987). Die Post in der Schweiz : ihre Geschichte durch 2000 Jahre (in German). Bern u.a.: Hallwag. p. 211. ISBN 3-444-10335-2. OCLC 230911786.
^ "Josef Anton Schobinger". www.admin.ch. Retrieved April 13, 2024.
^ "Adrien Lachenal". www.admin.ch. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
^ "Louis Perrier". www.admin.ch. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
^ "Eugen Huber | Legal Scholar, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
^ "Marie Manning". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
^ Bryan, Michael; Graves, Robert Edmund; Armstrong, Walter (1886). Dictionary of painters and engravers, biographical and critical. Cornell University Library. London : G. Bell and Sons.