1986 in Czechoslovakia

Events from the year 1986 in Czechoslovakia.

Incumbents

 * President: Gustáv Husák.
 * Prime Minister: Lubomír Štrougal.

Events

 * 23 May – Parliamentary elections are held with 99.39 percent turnout.
 * 20 October – Abortion is fully legalised in the Czech Socialist Republic. The law came into effect in the Slovak Socialist Republic three days later.

Film

 * Forbidden Dreams (Smrt krásných srnců), directed by Karel Kachyňa is released.
 * Krysař, directed by Jiří Barta, is released. The film was later released in English under the title The Pied Piper.
 * Scalpel, Please (Skalpel, prosím), directed by Jiří Svoboda, is released.

Births

 * 19 December – Zuzana Hejnová, winner of the silver medal in athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Deaths

 * 10 January – Jaroslav Seifert, writer, winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature (born 1901).
 * 15 January – Anna Zemánková, artist (born 1908).
 * 27 August – Olga Šilhánová, gymnast, gold medal winner at the 1948 Summer Olympics (born 1920).
 * 9 November – Jaroslava Muchová, artist (born 1909).