Events during the year 1877 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

Federal Council: Joachim Heer (president) Karl Schenk Emil Welti Johann Jakob Scherer Bernhard Hammer Fridolin Anderwert Numa Droz

Births 17 February – Isabelle Eberhardt, explorer and author (died 1904 in Algeria) 27 August – Ernst Wetter, politician (died 1963)

Deaths 31 December – Gustave Courbet, French painter (born 1819 in France)

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