About the day » Thursday March 1, 1877Calender converter

• Albert Schonewille, Gramsbergen, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1952)
• Adriaan POEN, Venhuizen
• Adriana Anna Margaretha de Groot, Nijmegen († 1879)
• Adrianus van Rijswijk, Hendrik ido Ambacht
• Adrianus Albertus Johannes Gelderman, Schraard (Wonseradeel) († 1955)
• Adrianus Albertus Johannes Gelderman, Wonseradeel († 1955)
• aimée VANACOLEYEN, Saint-Ghislain (Belgium) Hainaut
• Sinke, Goes († 1877)
• Aantje Hendrika de Weerd, Meerkerk, Nederland († 1957)
• Jacob Buurman, Leiderdorp

• Adrianus Johannes Krielaart (0), Gorinchem, Nederland
• (Johanna) Maria van Esch (27), Tilburg, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Hoeksema (76), Zuidwolde
• de Graaf (0), Musselkanaal, Groningen, Nederland
• Aart Verheij (0), Hekendorp
• Antonius Melis (21), Woensel, Eindhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius van Melis (21), Eindhoven
• Arnoldus Aussems (83), Gronsveld, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonij Meulenbrugge (0), Almen
• Arnoldus Aussems (83), Eckelrade, Gronsveld, Limburg, Netherlands

• 1863 » Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and set designer († 1930)
• 1870 » E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and academic († 1944)
• 1876 » Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian businessman († 1942)
• 1880 » Lytton Strachey, British writer and critic († 1932)
• 1886 » Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian-Swiss painter, poet, and playwright († 1980)
• 1888 » Ewart Astill, English cricketer and billiards player († 1948)
• 1888 » Fanny Walden, English cricketer and umpire, international footballer, outside right († 1949)
• 1889 » Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and philosopher († 1960)
• 1890 » Theresa Bernstein, Polish-American painter and author († 2002)
• 1891 » Ralph Hitz, Austrian-American hotelier († 1940)

• 1841 » Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (b. 1764)
• 1862 » Peter Barlow, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1776)
• 1875 » Tristan Corbière, French poet and educator (b. 1845)
• 1882 » Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1818)
• 1884 » Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and academic (b. 1820)
• 1906 » José María de Pereda, Spanish author (b. 1833)
• 1911 » Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1914 » Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, English soldier and politician, 8th Governor General of Canada (b. 1845)
• 1920 » John H. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician (b. 1842)
• 1922 » Pichichi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)

• 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 1 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
• May 5 » American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
• May 9 » A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
• June 17 » American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
• August 9 » Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole: A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army.
• October 5 » The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.

The temperature on March 1, 1877 was about 1.1 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 9 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.