About the day » Sunday March 2, 1879Calender converter

• Alice Key (child) Howard († 1890)
• Adriana Maria Josephina (Jana) Verhoof, Tilburg Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1935)
• Adriaantje Post, Urk († 1881)
• Alida Kabalt, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• (Jan) Johannes Lambertus Heijlands, Bingelrade, Nederland († 1954)
• ALICE ANNE JOSEPH PISCINY, ANS († 1879)
• Albert Pierre Louis Joseph DUSSART, Marchiennes... Hauts de France († 1959)
• Alberdina Harteman, Lienden,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1879)
• Albert Auguste Joseph Ghislain Decoo, Namur († 1879)
• Adrien Alphonse Justin Marie Beeckman, Aalst († 1924)

• Anna Eilander (75), Heerde
• Allegonda Geurts (59), Tegelen, Limburg, Netherlands
• Adrianus Croijmans (84), Erp
• Allegonda Geurts (59), Tegelen
• Aernout Baart (74), Doesburg
• Aaltien Harms Bakker (88), Het Haagje (Hoogeveen)
• Anna Maria BLIEMER (87), Haarlem
• Antje Johannes Riemersma (60), Franeker Friesland Nederland
• Anna de Jongh (40), Breda
• Aart van der Lee (0), Langbroek 10

• 1859 » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright († 1916)
• 1860 » Susanna M. Salter, American activist and politician († 1961)
• 1862 » John Jay Chapman, American lawyer, author, and poet († 1933)
• 1876 » Pope Pius XII († 1958)
• 1878 » William Kissam Vanderbilt II, American sailor and race car driver († 1944)
• 1886 » Kurt Grelling, German logician and philosopher († 1942)
• 1886 » Willis H. O'Brien, American animator and director († 1962)
• 1900 » Kurt Weill, German-American pianist and composer († 1950)
• 1901 » Grete Hermann, German mathematician and philosopher († 1984)
• 1902 » Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy († 1972)

• 1835 » Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
• 1840 » Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German physician and astronomer (b. 1758)
• 1855 » Nicholas I, Russian emperor (b. 1796)
• 1864 » Ulric Dahlgren, American colonel (b. 1842)
• 1865 » Carl Sylvius Völkner, German-New Zealand priest and missionary (b. 1819)
• 1880 » John Benjamin Macneill, Irish engineer (b. 1790)
• 1895 » Berthe Morisot, French painter (b. 1841)
• 1895 » Isma'il Pasha, Egyptian politician (b. 1830)
• 1896 » Jubal Early, American general (b. 1816)
• 1921 » Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1850)

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• February 8 » Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
• February 8 » The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked in a riot during a match in Sydney.
• May 21 » War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
• May 31 » Gilmore's Garden in New York City is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
• July 1 » Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
• July 8 » Sailing ship USSJeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.

The temperature on March 2, 1879 was about -2.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.