The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1856 in Switzerland. Federal Council: Jakob Stämpfli (President) Jonas Furrer Josef Munzinger...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1856. 1856 (MDCCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on...

The Neuchâtel Crisis (1856–1857) was the result of a diplomatic question between the Swiss Confederation and the King of Prussia regarding the rights of...

Below is a list of presidents of the Swiss Confederation (1848–present). It presents the presiding member of the Swiss Federal Council, the country's seven-member...

Banking in Switzerland dates to the early 18th century through Switzerland's merchant trade and has, over the centuries, grown into a complex, regulated...

The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the Swiss Confederation. The nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy in the form of the first three confederate...

Events in the year 2024 in Switzerland. President of the Swiss Confederation: Viola Amherd President of the National Council: Eric Nussbaumer President...

at sea after dying in Valparaiso, Chile Michael Parks (1940–2017), American film actor Christian Ferdinand Schiess (1856–1884), Swiss Victoria Cross recipient...

Maurice Koechlin (3 June 1856 – 14 January 1946) was a Franco-Swiss structural engineer from the Koechlin family. A member of the renowned Alsatian Koechlin...

1856 in the United States included some significant events that pushed the nation closer towards civil war. President: Franklin Pierce (D-New Hampshire)...

manufacturer founded in 1856 in Neuchatel, Switzerland. They have traditionally focused on export markets outside Europe and won several awards in the late 19th...

region of Switzerland, conventionally referred to as the Swiss Alps, represents a major natural feature of the country and is, along with the Swiss Plateau...

Switzerland had a population of 8.57 million as of mid-2019. Its population quadrupled over the period 1800 to 1990 (average doubling time 95 years)....

Engelbert Brenner (1904–1986), Austrian-American musician Ernst Brenner (1856–1911), Swiss politician Eve Brenner (born 1926), American actress Ève Brenner (born...

headquartered in Grenchen, Switzerland, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Swatch Group. Though ETA was founded by Eterna in 1856 some part of its...

The year 1856 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. First remains of Neanderthal Man found in the Neandertal Valley...

/ Peter Nagy Igor Stravinsky / Johann Sebastian Bach ECM New Series ECM 1856 2003 Savina Yannatou / Primavera en Salonico Terra Nostra ECM 1857 2003 Louis...

Matthias Zurbriggen (15 May 1856 in Saas-Fee – 21 June 1917 in Geneva) was a Swiss mountaineer. He climbed throughout the Alps, the Andes, the Himalayas...

Andreas Farny (born 1992), German ice hockey player Arnold Droz-Farny (1856–1912), Swiss mathematician Henry Farny (1847–1916), American painter and illustrator...

life in Switzerland. For more information see the articles Swiss people and Demographics of Switzerland. See also: List of 2005 office-holders in Switzerland...

counterparty of the Federal Reserve in the United States. Credit Suisse was founded in 1856 to fund the development of Switzerland's rail system. It issued loans...

government: in 1849 to prevent possible incursions into Swiss territory during the Baden Revolution; in 1856, to pre-empt Prussian military intervention in the...

all his early pictures were landscapes, painted in many parts of England, or, about 1856, in Switzerland. It was towards 1870, that he began to devote himself...

Jägergewehr 1856/59 (English: Jäger rifle 1856/59), originally designed in 1853, was intended to be a service rifle for use by the Swiss armed forces...

Switzerland is a federal republic in Europe. It is one of the most developed countries in the world, with the highest nominal wealth per adult and the...

red-yellow. Coat of arms introduced in the aftermath of the Neuchâtel Crisis of 1856–1857. seceded from Berne The Swiss constitution does not designate a...

VC (7 April 1856 – 14 December 1884) was a Swiss recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of...

(1885–1975), French fashion journalist Maria Luise Katharina Breslau (1856–1927), Swiss painter Marie Louise Brimberg (born 1948), Danish photographer Marie-Louise...

Departments of the Swiss government federal administration of Switzerland, and corresponds in its range of tasks to the ministry of foreign affairs in other countries...

Arthur Hind (1856–1933), of Utica, New York, was a British-born American textile industrialist and philatelist. He was born in Bradford, United Kingdom...