1983 in Switzerland

Events during the year 1983 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

• Federal Council:
• Pierre Aubert (President)
• Leon Schlumpf
• Alphons Egli
• Rudolf Friedrich
• Willi Ritschard (resigned 16 October)
• Georges-André Chevallaz (resigned 31 December)
• Kurt Furgler
• Otto Stich (elected 7 December)
• Jean-Pascal Delamuraz (elected 7 December)

Events

• 28 May – The Green Party of Switzerland is established.
• The UCI Track Cycling World Championships take place in Zürich.

Births

• 24 June – Valeria Spälty, curler

Deaths

• 25 June – Alberto Ginastera, composer (born 1916 in Argentina)
• 10 September – Felix Bloch, Swiss-American physicist and Nobel physics laureate (born 1905)
• 16 October – Willi Ritschard, politician (born 1918)

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