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1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
Events
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.
April - The Fleet Prison for debtors in London is abolished.
May 23 - Persian Prophet The Báb announces His revelation, founding Bábism .
May 24 - First electrical telegram sent by Samuel Morse from Baltimore, Maryland to Washington, D.C. , saying "What hath God wrought?".
June 6 - George Williams founds the Young Men's Christian Association in London .
June 15 - Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization , a process to strengthen rubber .
June 27 - Joseph Smith, Jr. is murdered with his brother Hyrum in Carthage Jail, Carthage, Illinois .
July 3 - The last pair of Great Auks are killed.
August 8 - During a meeting held in Nauvoo , the Quorum of Twelve, headed by Brigham Young , is created as the leading body of the Mormon Church.
October 22 - Date predicted by the Millerites for the Second Coming of Jesus ; leads to the Great Disappointment .
November - James K. Polk defeats Henry Clay in the U.S. presidential election
3 November - Debut of Giuseppe Verdi 's I due Foscari , at Teatro Argentina , Rome .
November 6 - The Dominican Republic gains its independence from Spain .
Births
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 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
October 15 - Friedrich Nietzsche , German philosopher (d. 1900 )
October 22 - Louis Riel , Canadian leader (d. 1885 )
October 22 - Sarah Bernhardt , French actress
October 23 - Robert Bridges , English poet (d. 1930 )
October 27 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson , Swedish writer and pacirist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1916 )
November 2 - Mehmed V , Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918 )
November 23 - Karl Benz , German automotive pioneer
December 1 - Alexandra of Denmark , queen of Edward VII of England (d. 1925 )
December 8 - Émile Reynaud , French science teacher and animation pioneer
Abd ar-Rahman Khan , Emir of Afghanistan
Deaths
January 27 - Charles Nodier , French writer (b. 1780 )
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 )
June 27 - Hyrum Smith , American religious leader (b. 1800 )
June 27 - Joseph Smith, Jr. , American religious leader (b. 1805 )
July 27 - John Dalton , English chemist and physicist (b. 1766 )
July 28 - Joseph Bonaparte , brother of Napoleon I and King of Napes and Spain (b. 1768 )
July 29 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart , Austrian composer (b. 1791 )
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