1877 in Switzerland

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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