1852 in Switzerland

Decades:	1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s;
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 1852 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

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^[1]

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)

^ Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (in German) accessed 18 February 2011