1844

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1810s 1820s 1830s – 1840s – 1850s 1860s 1870s
Years:	1841 1842 1843 – 1844 – 1845 1846 1847

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1844 Media

May 24: A new era in telecommunications begins as the first telegraph message is sent.
February 28: An explosion on the USS Princeton kills the U.S. Secretary of State and the U.S. Secretary of War.
June 3: The great auk becomes extinct as the last pair of auks is killed on an island of Iceland.
Finnish author Minna Canth (1844-1897)
Patrick Collins
John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish-born poet, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Inscribed on verso: To my friend, M.P. Curran, with the truest regard of John Boyle O'Reilly, 28th March 1871.
Cassatt seated in a chair with an umbrella. Verso reads "The only photograph for which she ever posed. Courtesy of Durand-Ruel."
Portrait of Emily Ruete (Sayyida Salme) in traditional dress as a Princess of Zanzibar.
Friedrich Nietzsche, circa 1875.
Karl Lueger, Mayor of Vienna, negative, gelatin on glass15 x 11 cm.

1844 (MDCCCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1844th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 844th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1840s decade. As of the start of 1844, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.