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The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1849 in Switzerland.
Incumbents
Events
- A uniform postal service, the Swiss Post, is introduced.[1]
- The Museum of Cultures is established
Births
- March 28 – August Fetscherin, Swiss physician (d. 1882)
- April 12 – Albert Heim, Swiss geologist (d. 1937)
- April 24 – Alfred Kleiner, Swiss physicist (d. 1916)
- May 19 – Adrien Lachenal, Swiss politician (d. 1918)
- May 22 – Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1913)
- December 29 – Otto Stoll, Swiss linguist and ethnologist (d. 1922)
No known date
- Albert Butz, Swiss-American inventor and businessman (d. 1905)
Deaths
- January 6 – Johann Caspar von Orelli, Swiss classical scholar (b. 1787)
- May 18 – Samuel Amsler, Swiss engraver (b. 1791)
- August 12 – Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American politician (b. 1761)
- October 25 – Édouard Bovet, Swiss watchmaker (b. 1797)
- November 13 – Marie Manning, Swiss domestic servant and murderer (b. 1821)[2]
- November 14 – Karl Adams, Swiss mathematician (b. 1811)
- December 27 – Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Swiss animal and landscape painter (b. 1767)
No known date
- Frédéric Fregevize, Swiss landscape painter (b. 1770)[3]
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "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.
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