Today in History for Year 1844

Months in Year 1844: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 37 of 37

Jan 1st - 1st edition of New Rotterdam's Daily (3x per week)
Jan 15th - U of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana
Jan 25th - Recontre between Reps Weller & Shriver, US House of Representative
Feb 3rd - Hector Berlioz' "Carnaval Romain," premieres in Paris
Feb 27th - Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day)
Feb 28th - 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes
Mar 8th - King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
Mar 9th - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Hernani," premieres in Venice
Mar 21st - Origin of Baha'i Era-Baha'i calendar starts here (Baha 1, 1)
Mar 21st - The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ.
Mar 28th - Jose Zorilla's "Don Juan Tenorio," premieres in Madrid
Apr 12th - Texan envoys sign Treaty of Annexation with the United States
May 1st - Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate
May 6th - Johan Thorbecke argue general right to vote
May 23rd - Declaration of Bab (Baha'i festival) ('Azamat 7, 1)
May 24th - Samuel Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph message)
May 25th - 1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot
Jun 6th - Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) forms in London
Jun 15th - Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber
Inventor Samuel Morse Jun 22nd - Influential North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.
Jul 3rd - The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
Jul 27th - Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, NC
Jul 29th - NY Yacht Club forms
Jul 30th - 1st US yacht club organized, NY Yacht Club
Aug 8th - Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death
Aug 29th - 1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win
Sep 5th - Iron ore discovered in Minnesota's Mesabi Mountains
Sep 25th - Canada defeat USA by 23 runs in the 1st cricket international
Sep 28th - Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
Oct 22nd - Millerite Adventists wait for appearance of Jesus
Nov 6th - Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
Nov 23rd - Independence of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark.
Dec 3rd - RC Society Apostole of Prayer forms
Dec 4th - James K Polk elected 11th president of USA
Dec 11th - 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct
Dec 21st - The Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.
Dec 30th - Opera "Stradella" after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 94 of 94

Jan 4th - Thomas H Rollinson, composer
Jan 7th - Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, [St Bernadette of Lourdes], saint/visionary
Jan 14th - Clara Kathleen Rogers, composer
Jan 16th - Ismail Qemali, Albanian nationalist (d. 1919)
Jan 20th - Johan Peter Selmer, composer
Jan 25th - Frederick E Kitziger, composer
Jan 30th - Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, German gen/gov-gen of Belgium (1914-17)
Feb 1st - Eduard Adolf Strasburger, German botanist (Angiospermen)
Feb 1st - Granville Stanley Hall, US, psychologist
Feb 2nd - Leander Schlegel, composer
Feb 17th - A Montgomery Ward, found mail-order business (Montgomery Ward)
Feb 18th - Willem Maris, Dutch painter (Hague School)
Feb 20th - Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austria, physicist (statistical mechanics)
Feb 20th - Joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer (d. 1909)
Feb 21st - Charles-Marie Widor, Lyons France, composer/prof (Paris Conservatory)
Feb 22nd - Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer
Mar 2nd - Hermanus J A M Schaepman, clergyman/Dutch politician
Mar 4th - Josip Jurcic, Slovenian writer (10th Brother)
Mar 6th - Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov, composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee) (NS 3/18)
Mar 7th - Anthony Comstock, New Canaan Ct, anti-vice crusader/philatelist
Mar 10th - Pablo Martin M de Sarasate y Navascuez, composer (Spanish Dancing)
Mar 14th - King Umberto I, of Italy (1878-1900)
Mar 15th - Bransby Cooper, cricketer (in Dhaka Batsman in Australia's 1st Test)
Mar 18th - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Tikhvin Russia, composer (Scheherazade)
Mar 19th - Minna Canth, Finland, playwright (The Pastor's Family) and social activist
Mar 23rd - Eugene Gigout, composer
Mar 27th - Alophus Washington Greely, US, Arctic explorer
Mar 30th - Paul M Verlaine, France, lyric poet (Sagesse Bonbeur)
Mar 31st - Andrew Lang, Scotland, author (The Blue Fairy Book)
Apr 6th - Joseph Ludwig, composer
Apr 16th - Anatole France, writer (Thaïs, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921)
Apr 22nd - Lewis Thornton Powell, would-be assassin of Secretary of State William H. Seward (d. 1865)
May 2nd - Elijah McCoy, black inventor, held over 50 patents
May 3rd - Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist
May 3rd - Richard D'Oyly Carte, England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe)
May 8th - Hermann Gradener, composer
May 9th - [Maria] Catharina Beersmans, Belgian actress (Bad Herders)
May 17th - Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (d. 1918)
May 20th - Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French ambassador/painter (Dream)
May 22nd - Mary Cassatt, US, Impressionist painter (Woman Bathing)
May 23rd - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Successor to Prophet of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1921)
May 28th - Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer
May 30th - Louis Varney, composer
Jun 1st - Galusha Pennypacker, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1916
Jun 1st - John J. Toffey, American Civil War hero (d. 1911)
Jun 3rd - Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet
Jun 3rd - Emile Paladilhe, composer
Jun 3rd - Garret Augustus Hobart, (R) 24th US VP (1897-99)
Jun 6th - Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (d. 1905)
Jun 10th - J Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter (Haagse school)
Jun 10th - Karl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer (Von Tieren und Menschen)
Jun 14th - Edouard Naville, Swiss egyptologist
Jun 21st - Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer (1st railway Congo)
Jul 1st - Verney L Cameroon, English explorer (Tanganyika)
Jul 8th - Mary Johnson Lincoln, educator (Boston Cooking School)
Jul 11th - Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia
Jul 22nd - William Archibald Spooner, London, reverend/inventor (spoonerisms)
Jul 25th - Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916)
Jul 28th - Gerard Manley Hopkins, England, poet (Windhover)
Jul 31st - Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist
Aug 6th - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
Aug 7th - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (d. 1911)
Aug 17th - Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913)
Aug 29th - Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)
Aug 30th - Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum)
Sep 10th - Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (d. 1918)
Sep 11th - George Clement Martin, composer
Sep 20th - William H. Illingworth, American photographer (d. 1893)
Sep 28th - Michael Hertz, composer
Sep 28th - Robert Stout, Shetland Islands Scotland, NZ prime minister (1884-87)
Oct 3rd - Patrick Manson, "Father of tropical medicine"
Oct 5th - Francis William Reitz, State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934)
Founder of Heinz Henry John Heinz (Oct 11th) Oct 11th - Henry John Heinz, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded prepared-foods company (Heinz-57 varieties), (d. 1919)
Oct 12th - George W Cable, American writer (Northampton Years)
Oct 15th - Friedrich Nietzsche, Röcken bei Lützen, Prussia, German philosopher (Beyond Good and Evil), (d. 1900)
Oct 17th - Miguel Nieto, composer
Oct 18th - Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer
Oct 23rd - Louis Riel, Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Metis
Oct 23rd - Robert S Bridges, England, poet laureate (Eros & Psyche)
Oct 24th - Karl Lueger, anti semitic mayor of Vienna
Oct 27th - Klas Arnoldson, Sweden, politician/pacifist (Nobel 1908)
Oct 29th - Albert von Rothschild, Austrian banker
Oct 30th - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
Nov 3rd - Mehmed V Reshad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18)
Nov 10th - John S D Thompson, (C), 4th PM of Canada (1892-94)
Nov 10th - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian (d. 1932)
Nov 12th - Octave Fouque, composer
Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (Oct 15th) Nov 25th - Karl F Benz, German designer/auto manufacturer (4-taktmotor)
Dec 1st - Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain/Ireland
Dec 1st - Alfred Cellier, composer
Dec 4th - Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1914)
Dec 5th - John Frederick Bridge, composer
Dec 18th - Lujo [Ludwig J von] Brentano, German economist
Dec 22nd - Izydor Lotto, composer

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Jun 26th - 10th US President John Tyler marries 2nd wife Julia Gardiner in NYC, 1st president to marry while in office

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 47 of 47

Jan 15th - Joseph Mazzinghi, composer, dies at 78
Jan 31st - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (b. 1773)
Feb 4th - Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant/literary, dies at 49
Feb 15th - Henry Addington Lord Sidmouth, Brit premier (1801-04), dies at 86
Feb 16th - Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer (b. 1792)
Feb 27th - Nicholas Biddle, US lawyer/diplomat/statesman/financier, dies at 85
Feb 28th - Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
Feb 28th - Thommas W Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
Feb 29th - Thaddaus Weigl, composer, dies at 67
Mar 8th - Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)
Mar 21st - Leopold F J J J van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician, dies at 65
Apr 4th - Charles Bulfinch, 1st US pro architect (Mass State House), dies at 80
Apr 8th - Ignaz Franz von Mosel, composer, dies at 72
Apr 22nd - Henri-Montan Berton, composer, dies at 76
May 8th - Charles XIV Johan, [Jean B Bernadotte], King of Sweden/Norway, dies
May 18th - Richard McCarty, American politician (b. 1780)
May 21st - Guiseppi Baini, composer, dies at 68
May 24th - William Crockford, clubman/gambler, dies
Jun 3rd - Louis-Antoine, the Bourbon, French duke of Angouleme, dies
Jun 15th - Thomas Campbell, poet (Ye Mariners of England), dies at 66
Jun 19th - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (b. 1772)
Jun 27th - Hyrum Smith, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob in Carthage Ill
Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr (Jun 27th) Jun 27th - Joseph Smith Jr, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob at 38
Jul 11th - Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
Jul 12th - Charles-Louis Panckoucke, French publisher, dies at 63
Jul 13th - Johann Gansbacher, composer, dies at 66
Jul 15th - Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian (b. 1772)
Jul 19th - Heinrich Domnich, composer, dies at 77
Jul 23rd - Christian Gobrecht, 4th US chief engraver (1840-44), dies in office
Jul 27th - John Dalton, Engl physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77
Jul 28th - Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768)
Jul 29th - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, composer, dies at 53
Aug 4th - Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (b. 1773)
Aug 11th - Jernej Kopitar, filmologist/censor (Slavic Grammatica), dies at 63
Aug 14th - Henry Francis Cary, translator (Dante), dies
Aug 29th - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
Aug 30th - Francis Baily, English astronomer/mathematician (Baily's Beads), dies
Sep 14th - Oliver Holden, composer, dies at 78
Sep 23rd - Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1783)
Sep 27th - Charles Nodier, French writer (History du chien the Brisquet), dies
Sep 28th - Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman (b. 1769)
Oct 12th - Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin), dies
Nov 1st - August Ferdinand Haeser, composer, dies at 45
Nov 14th - Flora Tristan, writer, dies at 41
Nov 14th - John Abercrombie, British physician (b. 1780)
Nov 21st - Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (b. 1769)
Dec 2nd - Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (b. 1768)