About the day » Monday July 1, 1878Calender converter

• Albert Stegeman, Ommen († 1879)
• (Levenloze zoon) Spekman († 1878)
• Anje Bruin, Rottum, Kantens, Groningen, Nederland († 1941)
• Anna Stricker, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Vader, Meliskerke, Zeeland, NL († 1878)
• Adriana Veltenaar, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1878)
• Angelica Anna Maria Feldbrugge ongehuwd, Groningen, Gr, Nederland († 1942)
• Albert Williams, Tranmere, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England († 1963)
• Angelica Anna Maria Feldbrugge-, Groningen, Nederland († 1942)
• Anje Bruin 1879, Rottum, Groningen, The Netherlands († 1941)

• Agnes Kerkwijk (53), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• Antonius Seijkens (0), Deurne en Liessel
• Adrien Augustin Amalric, marquis de Mailly-Nesle (86)
• Anna Cornelia Frederika de Bruijn (65), Brussel (België)
• Aagtje Karelse (84), Heinkenszand, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aaltje Koot (39), Utrecht, Nederland
• Abigail Betsey Mozes Pereira Pereira Mendoza (62), New York City, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus JACOBS (1), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• De bruyn (0), Bornem
• Aaltje Giethoorn (1), Zwartsluis

• 1872 » Louis Blériot, French pilot and engineer († 1936)
• 1873 » Alice Guy-Blaché, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter († 1968)
• 1873 » Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands († 1954)
• 1875 » Joseph Weil, American con man († 1976)
• 1876 » T.J. Ryan, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Queensland († 1921)
• 1878 » Jacques Rosenbaum, Estonian-German architect († 1944)
• 1879 » Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1881 » Edward Battersby Bailey, English geologist († 1965)
• 1882 » Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal († 1962)
• 1883 » Arthur Borton, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient († 1933)

• 1819 » the Public Universal Friend, American evangelist (b. 1752)
• 1839 » Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1785)
• 1860 » Charles Goodyear, American chemist and engineer (b. 1800)
• 1863 » John F. Reynolds, American general (b. 1820)
• 1884 » Allan Pinkerton, Scottish-American detective and spy (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (b. 1811)
• 1905 » John Hay, American journalist and politician, 37th United States Secretary of State (b. 1838)
• 1912 » Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter (b. 1875)
• 1925 » Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (b. 1866)
• 1934 » Ernst Röhm, German paramilitary commander (b. 1887)

• 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.
• 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.
• May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
• 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.
• September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
• October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.

The temperature on July 1, 1878 was about 17.3 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.