What Happened in March 1878

Historical Events

Mar 1 Gabriel Édouard Xavier Dupont, French composer, born in Caen, France (d. 1914)
Mar 2 Wander Johannes de Haas, Dutch physicist (Shubnikov–de Haas effect), born in Lisse, Netherlands (d. 1960)
Mar 2 William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1944)
Mar 4 Egbert Van Alstyne, American popular music songwriter and ragtime pianist ("In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree"; "For Your Boy and My Boy"), born in Marengo, Illinois (d. 1951) [1]
Mar 4 Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian esotericist, born in Kharkov, Russian Empire (d. 1947)
Mar 7 Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927)
Mar 10 Karel van de Woestijne, Flemish writer and poet (God at Sea), born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1929)
Mar 12 Gemma Galgani, Italian saint and mystic, born near Lucca, Italy (d. 1903)
Mar 12 Joseph Gustav Mraczek, German violinist, conductor, composer (Max und Moritz) and pedagogue, born in Brno, Bohemia (d. 1944)
Mar 14 Carel T. Scharten, Dutch poet and writer (Forces of the Future), born in Middelburg, Netherlands (d. 1950)

Mar 15 Shah of Iran (1925-41), born in Alasht, Savad Kooh, Mazandaran, Persia

Mar 15 Sammy Carter, Australian cricket wicketkeeper (28 Tests, 65 dismissals; NSWCA), born in Northowram, England (d. 1948)
Mar 16 Clemens August Graaf von Galen, German Catholic Bishop of Münster (led opposition to Nazism, especially T4 extermination program), born in Drinklage, Germany (d. 1946)
Mar 16 Henry B Walthall, American actor (The Birth of a Nation, Klondike), born in Shelby City, Alabama (d. 1936)
Mar 21 Thurlow Lieurance, American composer (By the Waters of Minnetonka; Sad Moon on Falling Leaf), ethnomusicologist (Indigenous peoples), and educator, born in Oskaloosa, Iowa (d. 1963)
Mar 22 Michel Théato, Luxembourgian athlete (Olympic gold representing France, marathon 1900), born in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg (d. 1923)
Mar 23 Franz Schreker [Schrecker], Austrian conductor, composer (Die Gezeichneten; Der ferne Klang), teacher, and administrator, born in Monaco (d. 1934)
Mar 24 Top Naeff, Dutch writer (School Idylls), born in Dordrecht, Netherlands (d. 1953)
Mar 27 Miller Huggins, American Baseball Hall of Fame manager (World Series 1923, 27, 28; 6 x AL pennants NY Yankees), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1929)
Mar 28 Arthur B. Spingarn, American lawyer and civil rights activist (NAACP cchairman, 1940-65), born in New York City (d. 1971)

Mar 31 American boxer (1st African-American world heavyweight champion 1908-15), born in Galveston, Texas [1]

Mar 20 53rd UK Prime Minister Archibald Primrose (31) weds heiress Hannah de Rothschild (27) at the Board of Guardians in Mount Street, London

Mar 3 Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English artist and Egyptologist, dies at 81
Mar 6 Julius Caesar, English cricket batsman (first English tours to North America 1859-60, Australia & NZ 1864-5; Surrey CCC), dies from dropsy at 47
Mar 16 William Banting, English undertaker, dies
Mar 20 Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (first law of thermodynamics), dies at 63
Mar 24 Albin Masek, Czech composer, dies at 73
Mar 27 Dobri Voynikov, Bulgarian teacher, playwright and journalist (The Phoney Civilization), dies at 44
Mar 27 George Gilbert Scott, architect, dies

Mar 29 American business tycoon and railroad executive (Central Pacific Railroad), dies at 64