2008 in Switzerland

Events during the year 2008 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

• Federal Council:
• Pascal Couchepin (president)
• Moritz Leuenberger
• Samuel Schmid (until December), then Ueli Maurer
• Micheline Calmy-Rey
• Hans-Rudolf Merz
• Doris Leuthard
• Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf

Events

• 27 August – Anna Göldi, who was beheaded in 1782 for witchcraft, is exonerated by the parliament of the Canton of Glarus.
• 10 September – The Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, is switched on at CERN, in Geneva.

Deaths

• 29 April – Albert Hofmann, chemist (born 1906)
• 23 July – Kurt Furgler, politician (born 1924)

References