General
Population: 1.21 Billion*
- Business: Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers founded (start of modern cooperative movement)
- Education: Bishop Nikolai F.S. Grundtvig founds first institute for adult education (Denmark)
- Entertainment: Writers include Dumas Le Comte de Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Dickens, Disraeli, Friedrich Hebbel, Heinrich Heine, Emerson, JS Mill, Charles Lever, James Russell Lowell, Coventry Patmore,
WM Thackeray, AP Stanley, AW Kinglake,
Art includes Turner "Rain, Steam, and Speed"
Music includes Berlioz, Flotow, Mendelssohn, Verdi
- Science: Grassmann creates calculus of extension
Great Auk (penguin-like) extinct
Chambers publishes on evolution but remains anonymous for 27 years
- Technology: Wood pulp paper invented by Keller
Morse invents telegraph
Fustaf Pasch of Sweden proposes safer matches by moving some chemicals to the striking surface
- Deaths: Charles XIV of Sweden, Chemist John Dalton, Sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, Politician Peter B. Porter, Financier Nicholas Biddle,
Napoleon's jailer Sir Hudson Lowe, Military hero JB Drouet d'Erlon, Statesman Jacques Laffitte, Joseph Bonaparte, Poet Thomas Campbell,
Translator Henry Francis Cary, Architect Charles Bulfinch, Composer HM Berton, Astronomer Francis Baily, Eccentric William Beckford,
Writer Ivan Andreyevich Krylov, Poet John Sterling, Christian organizer Edmund Rich, Naturalist KF Kielmeyer
Africa
- Morocco: Treaty of Tangier ends French War
Americas
- El Salvador: San Miguel erupts
- Mexico: Cyclone
Military revolts – Jose Joaquin de Herrera head of military
Asia
- Cambodia: Becomes Thai protectorate
- China: China, France and US sign first treaty of peace and commerce
- Tibet: French missionaries Huc and Gabet journey from China to Tibet
Europe
- Austria: German humorous weekly paper started in Munich
- France: Karl Marx meets Friedrich Engels in Paris
- German States: Attempt on the life of Frederick William IV King of Prussia
- Great Britain: First effective Factory Act
First public bath and wash houses open in Liverpool
YMCA founded in England by George Williams
Daniel O'Connell found guilty of political conspiracy against British rule of Ireland
British co-operative movement founded
British railroad mileage reaches over 2200 miles
- Italian States: Revolts of the weavers in Silesia
- Spain: Wall collapses during Palm Sunday procession in Spain's Balearic Islands killing 404
- Sweden: Death of Charles XIV of Sweden and Norway – originally Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte - son rules as Oscar I
Middle East
Pacific
President:
Pres: John Tyler
Pres: James K. Polk elected over Henry Clay
General
- Communication: Samuel Morse transmits message from D.C. to Baltimore
- Entertainment: Accidental balloon flight over Atlantic story published – hoax by Edgar Allen Poe
- Politics: Pledge under Polk of 54-40 or fight
East
- General: Morse transmits first telegraph message from DC to Baltimore
Stock market soon adopts telegraph and Morse code
Midwest
South
- Texas: Annexation plan rejected by US senate
West and Pacific
President
Pres: Joseph Smith
Pres: Quorum of the 12 Apostles with Brigham Young presiding
Membership: 26,146
Temples: 0
Other
- Saints call on former President John Quincy Adams, he refers to them as a new fanatical religious sect, but listens kindly
- Missouri senator Thomas H Benton makes a deal with Van Buren that if he is reelected, he would wipe out the Mormons and abolitionists
- Political convention nominates Joseph Smith for president
- Joseph Smith denounces Tyler in political papers – Smith prophesies that Tyler would not win the next election – Tyler denied Whig nomination, but he is made a third-party candidate
- Joseph Smith looks for places to settle in Oregon or California territories
- Joseph Smith petitions for protection from mobs
- Lincoln writes briefly about strife in Nauvoo – Lincoln wants to be kept abreast of the Mormon situation
- Addison Pratt begins missionary work in Tubuai (S Pacific)
- 623 emigrate from Britain to join Saints
- King Follett discourse
- Council of Fifty organized to lead westward migration
- Nauvoo Expositor publishes, declared public nuisance
- Joseph Smith &c. charged with riot in conjunction with Expositor
- Joseph and Hyrum attempt to flee, imprisoned and martyred June 27th
- Sidney Rigdon advocated as guardian of Church
- Brigham Young declares the Council of 12 have authority in the Church
- Brigham Young speaks with appearance and voice of Joseph - witnessed by Saints
- Strang publishes alleged letter by Joseph Smith
1844 
