About the day » Thursday March 2, 1871Calender converter

• Adrianus Donker, Stolwijk,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1952)
• Adrianus Wilhelmus van Neck, Rotterdam
• Adriana Henrietta DAMSMA, Zwijndrecht
• Aaltje Wurms, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Veldhuizen, Noordwolde / Westst.w.akte nr 78 († 1917)
• Adriana Hendrika van Dijk, Vleuten, Utrecht, Nederland († 1894)
• (m) Wolf, Zinse, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Adolphine Lapre, Pekalongan († 1934)
• Aaron C. Denlinger, Madison Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1949)
• Adriana Catharina van der Hooft, Terneuzen

• Abraham Berrevoets (50), Zierikzee
• * Nicolaas Marcus Murel (0), Kralingen, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Aleida Zengerink (71), Hengelo
• Adriaan van Haaften Cluwen (43), Amsterdam
• Aaltje Jans Hoekstra (75), Dronrijp, Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aartje Tielekin (9), Dordrecht, Zh, Ned
• Anna Caenen (0), Veldwezelt
• Adriana WESDORP (20), Stavenisse,Zeeland,NEDERLAND
• Adriana Koole (12), Oost en West-Souburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Jongh de (54), Terheijden

• 1842 » Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer, art collector, and philanthropist († 1914)
• 1846 » Marie Roze, French soprano († 1926)
• 1849 » Robert Means Thompson, American commander, lawyer, and businessman († 1930)
• 1859 » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright († 1916)
• 1860 » Susanna M. Salter, American activist and politician († 1961)
• 1862 » John Jay Chapman, American lawyer, author, and poet († 1933)
• 1876 » Pope Pius XII († 1958)
• 1878 » William Kissam Vanderbilt II, American sailor and race car driver († 1944)
• 1886 » Kurt Grelling, German logician and philosopher († 1942)
• 1886 » Willis H. O'Brien, American animator and director († 1962)

• 1830 » Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, German physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (b. 1755)
• 1835 » Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
• 1840 » Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German physician and astronomer (b. 1758)
• 1855 » Nicholas I, Russian emperor (b. 1796)
• 1864 » Ulric Dahlgren, American colonel (b. 1842)
• 1865 » Carl Sylvius Völkner, German-New Zealand priest and missionary (b. 1819)
• 1880 » John Benjamin Macneill, Irish engineer (b. 1790)
• 1895 » Berthe Morisot, French painter (b. 1841)
• 1895 » Isma'il Pasha, Egyptian politician (b. 1830)
• 1896 » Jubal Early, American general (b. 1816)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• March 21 » Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
• March 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
• July 20 » British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
• July 29 » The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.
• October 8 » The Great Chicago Fire and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire break out.
• December 26 » Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years and the score has been lost.

The temperature on March 2, 1871 was about 6.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The atmospheric humidity was 54%.