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Decades:	1810s  1820s  1830s  - 1840s -  1850s  1860s  1870s
Years:	1841 1842 1843 - 1844 - 1845 1846 1847

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Countries:         Australia - Canada -

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Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

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Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

This page is about year 1844. For the board game, see 1844.

Year 1844 (MDCCCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1844 1.1 January - March 1.2 April - June 1.3 July - September 1.4 October - December 1.5 Undated 2 Births 2.1 January - June 2.2 July - December 2.3 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 January - June 3.2 July - December 3.3 Unknown dates

• January 15 - University of Notre Dame receives its charter from Indiana.

• February 27 - The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
• February 28 - A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing two United States Cabinet members and several others.
• March 8 - King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
• March 12 - The Columbus and Xenia Railroad, the first railroad that is planned to be built in Ohio, is chartered.

• April - The Fleet Prison for debtors in London is abolished.

• May 23 - Persian Prophet The Báb announces His revelation to Mulla Hussein, just after sunset founding the Bábí Faith in Shiraz, Persia. He announced to the world of the coming of "He whom God shall make manifest." He is considered the forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
• May 24 - First electrical telegram sent by Samuel F. B. Morse from the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. to the B&O Railroad "outer depot" in Baltimore, Maryland, saying "What hath God wrought".
• June 6 - George Williams founds the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in London.
• June 15 - Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.

• June 22 - Influential North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.
• June 27 - Joseph Smith, Jr. is martyred with his brother Hyrum in Carthage Jail, Carthage, Illinois.

• July 3 - The United States signs The Sino-American Treaty of Wanghia with Chinese Government, the first diplomatic agreement between China and the United States in history.

• July 3 - The last pair of Great Auks are killed on the island of Eldey.

• August 8 - During a meeting held in Nauvoo, the Quorum of the Twelve, headed by Brigham Young, is chosen as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

• October 22 - Date predicted by the Millerites for the Second Coming of Jesus; leads to the Great Disappointment.
• November 3 - Debut of Giuseppe Verdi's I due Foscari, at Teatro Argentina, Rome.
• November 6 - The Dominican Republic drafts its first Constitution.
• December 4 - James K. Polk defeats Henry Clay in the U.S. presidential election.

• First ever international cricket match is played in New York City between Canada and the United States.
• Swedish chemistry professor Gustaf Erik Pasch invents the safety match.
• Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx meet in Paris.
• Alexandre Dumas, fils meets Marie Duplessis.
• Locksmith Alexander Fichet invents the first safe.
• Carlos Antonio Lopez becomes dictator of Paraguay.
• Abd al-Kader is defeated at Isly in Morocco. The sultan of Morocco soon repudiates his ally.
• The anonymously written Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation is published and paves the way for the acceptance of Darwin's book The Origin of Species.

1844 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1844 MDCCCXLIV
Ab urbe condita	2597
Armenian calendar	1293 ԹՎ ՌՄՂԳ
Bahá'í calendar	0 – 1
Buddhist calendar	2388
Chinese calendar	4480/4540-11-12 (癸卯年十一月十二日) — to — 4481/4541-11-22 (甲辰年十一月廿二日)
Ethiopian calendar	1836 – 1837
Hebrew calendar	5604 – 5605
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1899 – 1900
- Shaka Samvat	1766 – 1767
- Kali Yuga	4945 – 4946
Holocene calendar	11844
Iranian calendar	1222 – 1223
Islamic calendar	1259 – 1260
Japanese calendar	Tenpō 15 (天保15年) — changed to — Kōka 1 (弘化元年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2504 (皇紀2504年)
- Jōmon Era	11844
Julian calendar	1889
Korean calendar	4177
Thai solar calendar	2387
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• February 17 - Aaron Montgomery Ward, American department store founder (d. 1913)
• February 20 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (d. 1906)
• February 20 - Joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer (d. 1909)
• February 21 - Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (d. 1937)
• March 10 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist (d. 1908)
• March 18 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (d. 1908)
• March 25 - Adolf Engler, German botanist (d. 1930)
• March 30 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (d. 1896)
• April 16 - Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
• May 17 - Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (d. 1918)
• May 21 - Henri Rousseau, French artist (d. 1910)
• May 22 - Mary Cassatt, American artist (d. 1926)
• May 23 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian religious leader (d. 1921)
• June 3 - Garret A. Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)

• July 11 - King Peter I of Serbia (d. 1921)
• July 22 - William Archibald Spooner, British scholar and Anglican priest (d. 1930)
• July 28 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (d. 1889)
• August 6 - Prince Alfred of the United Kingdom, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
• August 17 - Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1913)
• August 22 - George Washington DeLong, American naval officer and explorer (d. 1881)
• August 23 - Hamilton Disston, American land developer (d. 1896)
• August 29 - Edward Carpenter, English Socialist poet (d. 1929)
• August 30 - Emily Ruete, princess of Zanzibar (d. 1924)
• September 20 - William H. Illingworth, American photographer (d. 1893)
• October 15 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (d. 1900)
• October 22 - Louis Riel, Canadian leader (d. 1885)
• October 22 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923)
• October 23 - Robert Bridges, English poet (d. 1930)
• October 27 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1916)
• November 2 - Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
• November 10 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (d. 1932)
• November 23 - Karl Benz, German automotive pioneer (d. 1929)
• December 1 - Alexandra of Denmark, queen of Edward VII of England (d. 1925)
• December 8 - Émile Reynaud, French science teacher and animation pioneer (d. 1918)

• Abd ar-Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (d. 1901)

See also Category: 1844 births.

• January 25 - Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Count d'Erlon, French marshal (b. 1765)
• January 27 - Charles Nodier, French writer (b. 1780)
• February 15 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1757)
• February 27 - Nicholas Biddle, president of the Second Bank of the United States (b. 1786)
• March 8 - King Charles XIV John of Sweden, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, French Napoleonic general (b. 1763)
• April 14 - Charlotte Dymond Murdered on the slopes of Roughtor, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall.
• June 27 - Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (b. 1800)
• June 27 - Joseph Smith, Jr., American religious leader (b. 1805)

• July 11 - Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet and philosopher (b. 1800)
• July 27 - John Dalton, English chemist and physicist (b. 1766)
• July 28 - Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768)
• July 29 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1791)

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See also Category: 1844 deaths.