Events during the year 1890 in Switzerland.
Incumbents Federal Council: Antoine Louis John Ruchonnet (president) Bernhard Hammer (until December), then Emil Frey Karl Schenk Emil Welti Numa Droz Adolf Deucher Walter Hauser
Births 3 February – Paul Scherrer, physicist (died 1969) 15 September – Frank Martin, composer (died 1974 in the Netherlands) 22 September – Ferdinand Gonseth, mathematician and philosopher (died 1975) Rudolf Bosshard, rower (died 1980)
Deaths 3 November – Ulrich Ochsenbein, politician (born 1811) 11 November – Frédéric Guillaume de Pury, Swiss-Australian winemaker (born 1831)
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