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.
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 (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).
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