About the day » Tuesday March 5, 1861Calender converter

• Annemie Burger, Zegwaart († 1863)
• Aan Pruffer, Dronrijp, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Hergarden, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Ada Florence Bonham, Union, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
• Adolphus Vanslambrouck, Zwevezele
• Anna Wilhelmina Josephina Maria Lunemann, L√ºnen, Unna, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• Antje Geerts VAN DER VEEN, Hardegarijp (Tytsjerksteradiel) Friesland Netherlands († 1942)
• Alida van Hofslot, Soest († 1880)
• Anna van Sluijsveld, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1931)
• Albert van den Berg, Haren († 1887)

• Assen (38), Emlichheim (DE)
• Aaltjen Zeevalkink (66), Zelhem, Bronckhorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Vermorken (56), Hontenisse
• Anna Maria Vermorken (62), Hontenisse
• Adrianus Huisman (7)
• Adrianus Huisman (7), Bleiswijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Akke Piers Feenstra (37)
• Albert de Ridder (0), Oostzaan
• Bartele Durks (Dirks) Wijnands (74), Dokkum, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham RUSTENBURG (0), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1853 » Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator († 1911)
• 1862 » Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician († 1934)
• 1867 » Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec († 1952)
• 1869 » Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal († 1952)
• 1870 » Evgeny Paton, French-Ukrainian engineer († 1953)
• 1870 » Frank Norris, American journalist and author († 1902)
• 1871 » Konstantinos Pallis, Greek general and politician, Minister Governor-General of Macedonia († 1941)
• 1871 » Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-Russian economist and philosopher († 1919)
• 1873 » Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian skier and explorer († 1961)
• 1874 » Henry Travers, English-American actor († 1965)

• 1815 » Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologist (b. 1734)
• 1827 » Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1745)
• 1827 » Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749)
• 1829 » John Adams, English sailor and mutineer (b. 1766)
• 1849 » David Scott, Scottish historical painter (b. 1806)
• 1876 » Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian and author (b. 1805)
• 1893 » Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (b. 1828)
• 1895 » Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1831)
• 1895 » Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English general and scholar (b. 1810)
• 1907 » Friedrich Blass, German philologist, scholar, and academic (b. 1843)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• January 29 » Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
• May 13 » Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
• August 6 » Britain imposes the Lagos Treaty of Cession to suppress slavery in what is now Nigeria.
• October 24 » The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.
• November 20 » American Civil War: A secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.
• November 28 » American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Missouri to be the 12th state of the Confederacy.

The temperature on March 5, 1861 was about 3.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.