Английская Википедия:2023 in Switzerland

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Events in the year 2023 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

• President of the Swiss Confederation: Alain Berset
• President of the National Council: Irène Kälin
• President of the Swiss Council of States: Thomas Hefti

Events

• 5 February: Avalanches kill eight tourists in the Alps.
• 19 March: Acquisition of Credit Suisse by UBS: UBS Group AG, supported by the Swiss government, reaches a deal to merge with Credit Suisse as the latter faces imminent insolvency.
• 31 March: More than a dozen people are injured in separate incidents after two trains derail during a storm.
• 12 June: The Swiss Federal Administration reports a distributed denial of service attack on some of its websites.
• 16 June: The village of Brienz/Brinzauls in Grisons, is narrowly missed by an overnight 2 million m³ (71 million cu ft) rockslide. The village of 128 residents had been evacuated in May after scientists predicted the imminent rockslide.
• 17 June: Seven people are injured after a hot air balloon catches fire in Zug.
• 11 August: The Gotthard Base Tunnel is closed for at least six days after a freight train derails in the tunnel.

• 22 October: 2023 Swiss federal election: Voters in Switzerland elect the members of the country's Federal Assembly.
• 29 October: The National Council of Switzerland votes 151–29 to approve a ban on full-face coverings, such as burqas worn by Muslim women. Violators of the ban could face a fine of up to 1,000 Swiss francs.
• 11 December: Two people are killed and another person is wounded in a shooting in Sion. Swiss police says the suspect is in custody.

Arts and entertainment

• 76th Locarno Film Festival August 2 – 12

Sports

• 11–16 July – 2023 World Orienteering Championships in Graubunden
• 1–12 August – 2023 IFSC Climbing World Championships
• UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group I
• 2022–23 in Swiss football

• 2022–23 Swiss Promotion League
• 2022–23 Swiss Challenge League
• 2022–23 Swiss Super League
• 2022–23 Swiss Women's Super League
• 2022–23 Swiss Cup

Deaths

• 4 January – Anton Schnider, 86, footballer (BSC Young Boys, FC Grenchen, national team)
• 7 January – Walter Intemann, 78, Swiss-born Austrian businessman and politician
• 9 January – K. Alex Müller, 95, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1987)
• 16 January – Mousse Boulanger, 96, writer and journalist
• 26 January – Edgar Schein, 94, Swiss-born American business theorist and psychologist
• 28 January – Max Huwyler, 91, Swiss writer
• 30 January – Donald M. Hess, 86, winemaker and art collector
• 2 February – Peter Facklam, 92, politician, member of the Executive Council of Basel-Stadt (1980–1992)
• 15 February – Gilbert Rist, 84, educator
• 23 February – François Couchepin, 88, lawyer and politician, chancellor (1991–1999)
• 7 March – André Haefliger, 93, mathematician (Haefliger structure)
• 8 March – Roland Hürzeler, 77, Olympic gymnast (1968)
• 23 March – Peter Marti, 70, footballer (Zürich, Basel, national team)
• 24 March – Marcel Blanc, 88, politician, Vaud state councillor (1978–1991)
• 28 March – Theodor Otto Diener, 102, Swiss-American plant pathologist, discoverer of viroids
• 7 April – Elisabeth Kopp, 86, politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council and minister of justice and police (1984–1989)
• 9 April – Roberto Frigerio, 84, footballer (Basel, Bellinzona, national team)
• 13 April – Eberhard W. Kornfeld, 99, auctioneer, author, and art dealer
• 25 April – Hanna Johansen, 83, German-born Swiss writer (7×7 Tales of a Sevensleeper)
• 2 May – Heidy Forster, 92, Swiss-German actress (Hinter den sieben Gleisen, The Roaring Fifties, The Foster Boy)
• 7 May – Peter Zeindler, 89, journalist, writer, and playwright
• 22 May – Michael E. Dreher, 79, politician, MP (1987–1999)
• 24 May – Tina Turner, 83, American-born singer ("River Deep – Mountain High", "What's Love Got to Do with It") and actress (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome), 8-time Grammy winner.
• 31 May – Kurt Widmer, 82, baritone and voice teacher (City of Basel Music Academy)
• 6 June – Peter Henrici, 95, Roman Catholic prelate and philosopher, auxiliary bishop of Chur (1993–2007)
• 11 June – Jean Wicki, 89, bobsledder, Olympic champion (1972)
• 13 June – Philippe Borer, 68, violinist
• 16 June – Gino Mäder, 26, Olympic road cyclist (2020)
• 27 June – Peter Bieri, 79, writer and philosopher
• 14 July – Albert Eschenmoser, 97, organic chemist (Eschenmoser's salt, Eschenmoser fragmentation, Eschenmoser sulfide contraction)
• 19 July – Silvana Lattmann, 104, Italian-Swiss poet and author
• 20 July – Arnaud Bédat, 58, journalist (L'Illustré) and author
• 2 August – Laurence Deonna, 86, journalist
• 4 August – Andreas Däscher, 96, four-time Olympic ski jumper
• 15 August – Ursula Cantieni, 75, Swiss-German actress (Die Fallers – Die SWR Schwarzwaldserie)
• 19 August – Hans Rudolf Gysin, 82, politician, member of the National Council (1987–2011)
• 22 August – Martin Laciga, 48, Olympic beach volleyball player (2000, 2004)