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

Incumbents

• Federal Council:
  • Ulrich Ochsenbein
  • Jonas Furrer (President)
  • Josef Munzinger
  • Henri Druey
  • Friedrich Frey-Herosé
  • Wilhelm Matthias Naeff
  • Stefano Franscini

Events

• A uniform postal service, the Swiss Post, is introduced.
• The Museum of Cultures is established

Births

• January 30 – Josef Anton Schobinger, politician (died 1911)
• 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)
• May 22 – Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (died 1913)
• July 13 – Eugen Huber, jurist and creator of the Swiss Civil Code (died 1923)
• December 29 – Otto Stoll, linguist and ethnologist (died 1922)

No known date

• Albert Butz, Swiss-American inventor and businessman (died 1905)

Deaths

• 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)
• November 14 – Karl Adams, Swiss mathematician (born 1811)
• December 27 – Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Swiss animal and landscape painter (born 1767)

No known date

• Frédéric Fregevize, Swiss landscape painter (born 1770)

References

1. 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.
2. "Josef Anton Schobinger". www.admin.ch. Retrieved April 13, 2024.
3. "Adrien Lachenal". www.admin.ch. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
4. "Louis Perrier". www.admin.ch. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
5. "Eugen Huber | Legal Scholar, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
6. "Marie Manning". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
7. Bryan, Michael; Graves, Robert Edmund; Armstrong, Walter (1886). Dictionary of painters and engravers, biographical and critical. Cornell University Library. London : G. Bell and Sons.

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