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.

Popular culture

Film

• Forbidden Dreams, 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, 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.
• 15 January – Anna Zemánková, artist.
• 27 August – Olga Šilhánová, gymnast, gold medal winner at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
• 9 November – Jaroslava Muchová, artist.