The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1852 in Switzerland.
Incumbents
- Federal Council:
- Ulrich Ochsenbein
- Jonas Furrer (President)
- Josef Munzinger
- Henri Druey
- Friedrich Frey-Herosé
- Wilhelm Matthias Naeff
- Stefano Franscini
Events
- Rayon IV stamps are abandoned and become part of Rayon III
- A treaty is reached between the government of Baden and the Swiss Confederation on how to build Basel Badischer Bahnhof
- Alfred Escher, among others, helps push through a railway law saying that railway construction and operation should be left to private companies
- Lavey-Morcles is created by a merger of Morcles and Lavey
Births
- June 2 – Eduard Spelterini, pioneer of ballooning and aerial photography (d. 1931)
- June 28 – Hans Huber, composer (d. 1921)
- July 31 – Hans Renold, engineer (d. 1943)
- August 11 – Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler, agriculturalist and ethnographer (d. 1935)
- October 14 – Otto Binswanger, psychiatrist and neurologist (d. 1929)
- December 11 – Karl Moor, Communist and German spy in World War I (d. 1932)
Deaths
- François-Louis Cailler, first Swiss chocolate producer (b. 1796)
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