Significant Events
- Feb 4 World's oldest known Bible, "The Codex Sinaiticus" (Sinai Bible), is discovered or stolen in Egypt by Constantin von Tischendorf
- May 24 Samuel Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" in the world's first telegraph message
World Leaders in 1844
John Tyler
10th US President
Robert Peel
British Prime Minister
Famous People in 1844
Charles Dickens
Novelist
Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Elijah McCoy
Friedrich Nietzsche
Henry John Heinz
Karl Benz
Louis Riel
Thomas EakinsWould You Believe?
12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer, and other high-ranking U.S. federal officials
On February 28, 1844
Famous Weddings
- Sep 29 Politician Boss Tweed (21) weds Mary Jane C Skaden
Henry Addington
Joseph Smith Jr