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List of 1844 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1844

What happened in the year 1844?

Date Event
February 27, 1844 The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
March 8, 1844 King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
March 8, 1844 The Althing, the parliament of Iceland, was reopened after 45 years of closure.
March 21, 1844 The Baháʼí calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Baháʼí calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Baháʼí Faith as the Baháʼí New Year or Náw-Rúz.
March 30, 1844 One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
May 1, 1844 Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
May 23, 1844 Declaration of the Báb the evening before the 23rd: A merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Baháʼí Faith; Baháʼís celebrate the day as a holy day.
May 24, 1844 Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from a committee room in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
June 3, 1844 The last pair of great auks is killed.
June 6, 1844 The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
June 15, 1844 Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
June 27, 1844 Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
August 8, 1844 The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
September 28, 1844 Oscar I of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
October 22, 1844 The Millerites (followers of Baptist preacher William Miller) anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day becomes known as the Great Disappointment.
December 21, 1844 The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers commences business at its cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.