1890 in Switzerland

Events during the year 1890 in Switzerland.

← 1889 1888 1887 1890 in Switzerland → 1891 1892 1893
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	History of Switzerland Timeline of Swiss history List of years in Switzerland

Incumbents

• Federal Council:^[1]
  • Antoine Louis John Ruchonnet (president)^[2]
  • Bernhard Hammer (until December), then Emil Frey^[3]
  • Karl Schenk
  • Emil Welti
  • Numa Droz
  • Adolf Deucher
  • Walter Hauser

Births

• 3 February – Paul Scherrer, physicist (died 1969)^[4]
• 15 September – Frank Martin, composer (died 1974 in the Netherlands)^[5]
• 22 September – Ferdinand Gonseth, mathematician and philosopher (died 1975)^[6]
• Rudolf Bosshard, rower (died 1980)^[7]

Deaths

• 3 November – Ulrich Ochsenbein, politician (born 1811)^[8]
• 11 November – Frédéric Guillaume de Pury, Swiss-Australian winemaker (born 1831)^[9]