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.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1844 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1844
MDCCCXLIV
Ab urbe condita2597
Armenian calendar1293
ԹՎ ՌՄՂԳ
Assyrian calendar6594
Baháʼí calendar0–1
Balinese saka calendar1765–1766
Bengali calendar1251
Berber calendar2794
British Regnal yearVict. 1 – 8 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2388
Burmese calendar1206
Byzantine calendar7352–7353
Chinese calendar癸卯年 (Water Rabbit)
4541 or 4334
    — to —
甲辰年 (Wood Dragon)
4542 or 4335
Coptic calendar1560–1561
Discordian calendar3010
Ethiopian calendar1836–1837
Hebrew calendar5604–5605
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1900–1901
 - Shaka Samvat1765–1766
 - Kali Yuga4944–4945
Holocene calendar11844
Igbo calendar844–845
Iranian calendar1222–1223
Islamic calendar1259–1260
Japanese calendarTenpō 15 / Kōka 1
(弘化元年)
Javanese calendar1771–1772
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4177
Minguo calendar68 before ROC
民前68年
Nanakshahi calendar376
Thai solar calendar2386–2387
Tibetan calendar阴水兔年
(female Water-Rabbit)
1970 or 1589 or 817
    — to —
阳木龙年
(male Wood-Dragon)
1971 or 1590 or 818

In the Philippines, this was the only leap year with 365 days, when Tuesday, December 31 was skipped as Monday, December 30 was immediately followed by Wednesday, January 1, 1845, the next day after.[1] The change also applied to Caroline Islands, Guam, Marianas Islands, Marshall Islands and Palau as part of the Captaincy General of the Philippines; these became the first places on Earth to redraw the International Date Line.

Events

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May 24:The first telegraph message is sent.

January–March

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February 28: USS Princeton deaths.

April–June

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June 3: great auk

July–September

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October–December

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Date unknown

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Births

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January–March

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Minna Canth
 
Patrick Collins
 
John Boyle O'Reilly

April–June

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Mary Cassatt

July–September

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Emily Ruete
 
Friedrich Nietzsche
 
Ludwig Grillich
 
Queen Alexandra of Denmark

October–December

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Francis William Reitz
 
W.C. Bonnerjee

Date unknown

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Deaths

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January–June

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July–December

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Melchor Múzquiz

Date unknown

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References

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