1890 in Switzerland
Events during the year 1890 in Switzerland.
Incumbents
- Federal Council:
- *Antoine Louis John Ruchonnet
- *Bernhard Hammer, then Emil Frey
- *Karl Schenk
- *Emil Welti
- *Numa Droz
- *Adolf Deucher
- *Walter Hauser
Births
- 3 February – Paul Scherrer, physicist
- 15 September – Frank Martin, composer
- 22 September – Ferdinand Gonseth, mathematician and philosopher
- Rudolf Bosshard, rower
Deaths
- 3 November – Ulrich Ochsenbein, politician
- 11 November – Frédéric Guillaume de Pury, Swiss-Australian winemaker