About the day » Sunday March 2, 1879Calender converter

• Age Beintema, Franeker, Friesland, Nederland († 1880)
• Smeets, Wijlre, Nederland
• Adrianus Hermanus Josephus Smits, Stratum († 1909)
• Albert Auguste Joseph Ghislain Decoo, Namur († 1879)
• Alberdina Harteman, Lienden († 1879)
• Albert Pierre Louis Joseph DUSSART, Marchiennes... Hauts de France († 1959)
• Albert Dennekamp, Holten († 1918)
• Adriaantje Post, Urk († 1881)
• Aagtje (Aggie) VERBURG, Wemeldinge († 1988)
• adriana BLIEK, oud-beijerland

• Anne Marie Léonie Tesson (40), Courlon, 21580, France
• Anna Maria Bliemer (87), Haarlem
• Anna Maria Bliemer (86), Haarlem 161
• Albert van Veenhuijsen (18), Deventer
• Allegonda Geurts (59), Tegelen, Limburg, Netherlands
• Antje Eijlander (76), Heerde
• Adrianus de Pree (69), Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Alida Hendrika Senne (10), Woubrugge
• Antoine August Rocourt (53), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alle Tjeerds Buursma (75), Beets, gem. Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland

• 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)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Hendrikus
15. Gerardus
16. Wilhelmus

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

• 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.
• January 23 » Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
• February 8 » The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked in a riot during a match in Sydney.
• February 14 » The War of the Pacific breaks out when the Chilean Army occupies the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
• July 1 » Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
• December 21 » World premiere of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.
• December 31 » Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

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