About the day » Wednesday March 6, 1878Calender converter

• Abraham DEYOUNG
• Valk, Utrecht († 1878)
• Aaltien de Vrieze, Oldenhave, Drenthe, Nederland
• Beunk, Wierden († 1878)
• Alphons Willem Hubert du Pont, Roermond († 1964)
• Alida Magdalena Maria Van Klaveren, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1902)
• Ana Ferreira Ferraz Malzoni, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brasil
• Aart Wageveld († 1944)
• Afra de Haan, Wervershoof, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1899)
• Adrianus FAASSE Azn († 1878)

• Asa Kidder (83), Newfane, Windham, Vermont, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus Oijevaar Ooijevaar (38), Obdam, Koggenland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andrew Moore Barron (0)
• August Alexander Weimar (78), 's-Gravenhage
• Bastiaan Roos (50)
• Alida Kockx (80), Voorburg
• Catharina Antonia Meenerbreuker (62), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• ?? Morel (0), Rotterdam
• Beunk (0), Wierden
• Auke Ates Faber (12)

• 1870 » Oscar Straus, Viennese composer and conductor († 1954)
• 1871 » Afonso Costa, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 59th Prime Minister of Portugal († 1937)
• 1872 » Ben Harney, American pianist and composer († 1938)
• 1879 » Jimmy Hunter, New Zealand rugby player († 1962)
• 1882 » F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect, co-designed Villa Vizcaya († 1980)
• 1882 » Guy Kibbee, American actor and singer († 1956)
• 1884 » Molla Mallory, Norwegian-American tennis player († 1959)
• 1885 » Ring Lardner, American journalist and author († 1933)
• 1886 » Jam Handy, American swimmer and water polo player († 1983)
• 1886 » Nella Walker, American actress and vaudevillian († 1971)

• 1854 » Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Irish colonel and diplomat, Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (b. 1778)
• 1866 » William Whewell, English priest, historian, and philosopher (b. 1794)
• 1867 » Charles Farrar Browne, American-English author and educator (b. 1834)
• 1888 » Louisa May Alcott, American novelist and poet (b. 1832)
• 1895 » Camilla Collett, Norwegian novelist and activist (b. 1813)
• 1899 » Kaʻiulani of Hawaii (b. 1875)
• 1900 » Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (b. 1834)
• 1905 » John Henninger Reagan, American surveyor, judge, and politician, 3rd Confederate States of America Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1818)
• 1905 » Makar Yekmalyan, Armenian composer (b. 1856)
• 1919 » Oskars Kalpaks, Latvian colonel (b. 1882)

• 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 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
• February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
• March 15 » Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
• June 4 » Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
• November 17 » First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.
• December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

The temperature on March 6, 1878 was about 10.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 32 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.