1877 in Switzerland

Events during the year 1877 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

 * Federal Council:
 * Joachim Heer (president)
 * Karl Schenk
 * Emil Welti
 * Johann Jakob Scherer
 * Bernhard Hammer
 * Fridolin Anderwert
 * Numa Droz

Births

 * 17 February – Isabelle Eberhardt, explorer and author (died 1904 in Algeria)
 * 27 August – Ernst Wetter, politician (died 1963)

Deaths

 * 31 December – Gustave Courbet, French painter (born 1819 in France)