About the day » Tuesday March 12, 1878Calender converter

• Allain BRIAND, Saint-Thois, 29267, Finistère, Bretagne, France († 1961)
• Alida Bulk, Haastrecht († 1971)
• Alfred de Goumoëns, Saint-Etienne, Loire, France († 1970)
• Aaltje Ella VERMEER, Alton, Sioux, Iowa (USA) († 1956)
• Aaltje Vermeer, Alton, Sioux County, Iowa († 1956)
• Anna Maria Aretz, Ophoven, Sittard († 1951)
• Agatha Maagdenburg, Schiedam,- († 1878)
• Anna Bernardine Elisabeth Uebbing, Rhede, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland († 1882)
• Aagje MIDDELBURG, Beemster († 1933)
• Abraham van der Veer, Gouda († 1929)

• Andrew Lesher (76)
• Albert Sterken (57), Smilde
• Alida Verheul (0), Kamerik, Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aart van der Leest (62), Alphen
• Anna van Beek (42), Driebergen, Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Anna Geertruida van der Pol (49), Arnhem
• Alexander van Leeuwen (0), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Gezina (63), Lonneker
• Aaltjen Lindeboom (74), Groot Dochteren (Lochem)
• Andries Verhage (48), Aagtekerke, Nederland

• 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. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Wilhelmus
15. Gerardus
16. Klaas

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

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
• February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
• March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
• March 15 » Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
• May 14 » The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
• June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.

The temperature on March 12, 1878 was about 5.8 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%.