About the day » Monday March 12, 1877Calender converter

• Adrianus Johannes Vis, Delft († 1887)
• Aart Nobel, Zuidland, Bernisse, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands
• Aaldert Emming, Bovensmilde (Smilde) († 1884)
• Albertus Bensdorp, Zoeterwoude, ZH, Nederland († 1938)
• Albertus Johannes Bouwmeester, Epe († 1913)
• Alfons Jozef VERSTRAETE, Geluwe
• Aagje Bakker, Haarlemmermeer († 1944)
• HERMANS, Mons
• Albertus Bijnsdorp, Zoeterwoude († 1938)
• Aaltje Aukes Schaaf, Oudehaske, Skarsterl-N, Friesland, Netherlands

• Adrianus Breure, Bodegraven
• Aart van Middendorp (57), Apeldoorn
• Albertus Goldbach (48), Hoog Zuthem, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Catharina van Luin (84), Utrecht
• Agnes Becker (74), Wilnsdorf-Wilgersdorf, Duitsland
• Anna Catharina Meulemans‏ (73), Eindhout, België
• Albert Ruurds Fortuin (50), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alle de Haan- (56), Surhuizum, Nederland
• Alberdina Stegeman (62), Deventer
• Anne ROIGNANT, Le Faou, 29053, Finistère, Bretagne, France

• 1869 » George Forbes, New Zealand politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1947)
• 1874 » Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer († 1949)
• 1877 » Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior († 1946)
• 1878 » Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint († 1903)
• 1880 » Henry Drysdale Dakin, English-American chemist and academic († 1952)
• 1881 » Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland († 1966)
• 1882 » Carlos Blanco Galindo, Bolivian politician († 1943)
• 1883 » Sándor Jávorka, Hungarian botanist († 1961)
• 1888 » Hans Knappertsbusch, German conductor († 1965)
• 1888 » Walter Hermann Bucher, German-American geologist and paleontologist († 1965)

• 1898 » Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
• 1916 » Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
• 1925 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Wilhelmus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Adriana
8. Wilhelmina
9. Hendrika
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Trijntje
13. Neeltje
14. Jacoba
15. Antje
16. Petronella

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• January 20 » The last day of the Constantinople Conference results in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
• March 15 » First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
• May 16 » The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system. The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as a formal political movement in France.
• July 9 » The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.
• October 5 » The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.
• November 24 » Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.

The temperature on March 12, 1877 was about -0.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 27 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.