About the day » Monday March 24, 1879Calender converter

• Albert van Haersolte van Haerst, Zwolle, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1956)
• Agnes van Ederen, Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1949)
• Krom, Westzaan († 1879)
• Akke Kleefstra, Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• van Alphen, Geldermalsen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1880)
• Adriaantje Berkhout, Pernis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1950)
• Adeline Marie LARTICLE, Wadelincourt,, Hainaut, Belgique († 1960)
• Albert Roelof Boonen, Harderwijk
• Aart van Wilgenburg, Hoogland
• Adriaantje Berkhout, pernis

• "Félix" Alexandre Louis de Pardieu (66), Paris
• Alberta Jacoba BRUGMAN (1), Rotterdam
• Antje Dekker (6), Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Angela Victoria Slosse (77), Klerken
• Alice Hanson (17), Brant, Ontario, Canada
• Anna Maij (1), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Krom (0), Westzaan
• Anna Margaretha Clotscher (3), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Arie Willem Smits (47), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van Helden (0), oud-beijerland (zuid holland)

• 1874 » Harry Houdini, Hungarian-Jewish American magician and actor († 1926)
• 1874 » Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of the Italian Republic († 1961)
• 1875 » William Burns, Canadian lacrosse player († 1953)
• 1879 » Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher, poet, and composer († 1953)
• 1882 » George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand († 1943)
• 1882 » Marcel Lalu, French gymnast († 1951)
• 1883 » Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer († 1945)
• 1884 » Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist († 1968)
• 1884 » Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal († 1972)
• 1884 » Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1966)

• 1869 » Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (b. 1779)
• 1881 » Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)
• 1882 » Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807)
• 1887 » Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)
• 1888 » Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
• 1905 » Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1828)
• 1909 » John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871)
• 1915 » Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846)
• 1915 » Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848)
• 1916 » Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1867)

• 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 » The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked in a riot during a match in Sydney.
• February 15 » Women's rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
• July 4 » Anglo-Zulu War: The Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burned to the ground, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
• September 3 » Siege of the British Residency in Kabul: British envoy Sir Louis Cavagnari and 72 men of the Guides are massacred by Afghan troops while defending the British Residency in Kabul. Their heroism and loyalty became famous and revered throughout the British Empire.
• December 28 » Tay Bridge disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.
• December 31 » Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

The temperature on March 24, 1879 was about 1.5 °C. The air pressure was 18 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.