1890 in Switzerland

Events during the year 1890 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

 * Federal Council:
 * Antoine Louis John Ruchonnet (president)
 * Bernhard Hammer (until December), then Emil Frey
 * Karl Schenk
 * Emil Welti
 * Numa Droz
 * Adolf Deucher
 * Walter Hauser

Births

 * 3 February – Paul Scherrer, physicist (died 1969)
 * 15 September – Frank Martin, composer (died 1974 in the Netherlands)
 * 22 September – Ferdinand Gonseth, mathematician and philosopher (died 1975)
 * Rudolf Bosshard, rower (died 1980)

Deaths

 * 3 November – Ulrich Ochsenbein, politician (born 1811)
 * 11 November – Frédéric Guillaume de Pury, Swiss-Australian winemaker (born 1831)