1886 in Switzerland

Events during the year 1886 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

 * Federal Council:
 * Adolf Deucher (president)
 * Bernhard Hammer
 * Karl Schenk
 * Emil Welti
 * Numa Droz
 * Antoine Louis John Ruchonnet
 * Wilhelm Hertenstein

Events

 * Grasshopper Football Club is founded.

Births

 * 10 May – Karl Barth, Protestant theologian (died 1968)
 * 14 July – Ernst Nobs, politician (died 1957)
 * 1 September – Othmar Schoeck, composer (died 1957)
 * 6 October – Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor (died 1960)