1 : 1844
2 : Events
3 : Year in topic
4 : Births
5 : Deaths
6 : Heads of State
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s - 1840s - 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
Years: 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 - 1844 - 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849
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Events
- First ever international Cricket match played in New York City between Canada and the United States.
- 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 the USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing two United States Cabinet members and several others.
- 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, England.
- June 27 - Joseph Smith is murdered with his brother Hyrum in Carthage Jail, Carthage, Illinois.
- July 3 - The last pair of Great Auks is 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 Christ; leads to the Great Disappointment.
- November - James K. Polk defeats Henry Clay in the U.S. presidential election
- November 6 - The Dominican Republic gains its independence from Spain.
- Swedish chemistry professor Gustaf Erik Pasch invents the safety match
Year in topic
Births
- February 17 - Montgomery Ward, department store founder
- February 20 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist
- February 20 - Joshua Slocum, seaman and adventurer (d. 1909)
- February 21 - Charles-Marie Widor, organist and composer
- March 10 - Pablo de Sarasate, violinist (d. 1908)
- March 18 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer (d. 1908)
- March 30 - Paul Verlaine, lyric poet (d. 1896)
- May 17 - Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (d. 1918)
- May 19 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818)
- May 21 - Henri Rousseau, artist (d. 1910)
- May 22 - Mary Cassatt, artist
- May 23 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian religious leader
- July 11 - King Peter I of Serbia
- July 22 - William Archibald Spooner, British scholar and Anglican priest .
- August 6 - Prince Alfred of the United Kingdom, later Duke of Edinburgh and Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second son of Queen Victoria
- August 22 - George Washington DeLong, American naval officer/ill-fated explorer (d. 1881)
- October 15 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
- October 22 - Louis Riel, Metis leader
- October 22 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress
- November 2 - Mehmed V, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1918)
- November 23 - Karl Benz,German automotive pioneer
- December 1 - Alexandra of Denmark, later Queen Consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom
Deaths
Heads of State
- China - Daoguang Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (September 2, 1820 to February 25, 1850)
- Denmark - Christian VIII, King of Denmark (December 13, 1839 to January 20, 1848)
- France - Louis-Phillippe, King of the French (August 1, 1830 to February 24, 1848)
- Norway -
- # Charles III, King of Norway (1818-1844)
- # Oscar I, King of Sweden and Norway (1844-1859)
- Ottoman Empire - Abd-ul-Mejid, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (July 2, 1839 to June 25, 1861)
- Prussia - Frederick William IV, King of Prussia (1840-1861)
- Russia - Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia (December 26, 1825 to March 2, 1855)
- Spain - Isabella II, Queen of Spain (September 29, 1833 to September, 1868)
- United States - John Tyler, President of the United States (April 4, 1841 to March 4, 1845)
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