About the day » Thursday March 1, 1894Calender converter

• Meilink, Hem, Venhuizen, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands († 1894)
• Abraham Johannes Smit, Leiden,Leiden,Zuid Holland,Nederland († 1921)
• Aletta Jacoba van Eijmeren, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nl
• Aaltje Geerligs, Eerbeek († 1894)
• Allieda Margarethe BOENS, Torhout († 1894)
• Adrianus Albertus Johannes Rijksen, Angeren
• Aalbertus Christiaan Sprong, Culemborg († 1934)
• Achilles Cyrillus Bisschop, Zonnebeke
• Albertus Christiaan Sprong († 1934)
• Alvin C Nieburg, Wright City, Warren County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1979)

• Anneke Cornelis Verhagen (88), Wijk en Aalburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aletta Raaphorst (40), Leiden
• Antonia Johanna van Gool (77), Utrecht (stad), Utrecht, Nederland
• Aart Brasser (63), Baarn, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Ale Klazes Overwijk (0), Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Annechien JAGER (50), Delft (Vrijenban)
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• Anna Maria C(k)RISTAEL (66), Rillaar Vlaams Brabant *
• Adriana Johanna BOER (3), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• adriana margaretha arkema (25), uithuizen

• 1888 » Ewart Astill, English cricketer and billiards player († 1948)
• 1888 » Fanny Walden, English cricketer and umpire, international footballer, outside right († 1949)
• 1889 » Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and philosopher († 1960)
• 1890 » Theresa Bernstein, Polish-American painter and author († 2002)
• 1891 » Ralph Hitz, Austrian-American hotelier († 1940)
• 1892 » Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese author and educator († 1927)
• 1893 » Mercedes de Acosta, American author, poet, and playwright († 1968)
• 1896 » Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor († 1960)
• 1896 » Moriz Seeler, German playwright and producer († 1942)
• 1899 » Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German SS officer († 1972)

• 1862 » Peter Barlow, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1776)
• 1875 » Tristan Corbière, French poet and educator (b. 1845)
• 1882 » Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1818)
• 1884 » Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and academic (b. 1820)
• 1906 » José María de Pereda, Spanish author (b. 1833)
• 1911 » Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1914 » Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, English soldier and politician, 8th Governor General of Canada (b. 1845)
• 1920 » John H. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician (b. 1842)
• 1922 » Pichichi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
• 1932 » Frank Teschemacher, American Jazz musician (b. 1906)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• January 9 » New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• April 21 » Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
• June 24 » Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
• June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• November 1 » Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
• December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

The temperature on March 1, 1894 was about 2.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.