Events from 1844

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1844 ID: 842
Silesian Weavers' Uprising - social unrest due to industrialization and poor working conditions
ID: 842
1844 ID: 843
British Joint Stock Companies Act - first law requiring annual financial statements and audits
ID: 843
1844 ID: 844
First long-distance telegraph line Washington to Baltimore - Morse sends first message
ID: 844
1844 ID: 845
Garibaldi regularizes Masonic position joining Les Amis de la Patrie in Montevideo
ID: 845
Montevideo
1844 ID: 846
Joseph Liouville proves existence of transcendental numbers not roots of polynomial equations
ID: 846
1844 ID: 847
Hermann Grassmann develops theory of vector spaces and exterior algebra
ID: 847
1844 ID: 848
Vulcanized rubber products first sold commercially by Charles Goodyear
ID: 848
1844 ID: 849
Major smallpox epidemic - 1/3 of vaccinated contract mild smallpox, 8% die, more admissions than 1781
ID: 849
1844 ID: 850
Marx's Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts - material production determines consciousness
ID: 850
1844 ID: 851
Stirner's The Ego and Its Own - pure nominalist egoism, I am the creative nothing
ID: 851
1844 ID: 852
St. Bernadette age 10 - asthma forces countryside, practicing severe penances for sinners
ID: 852
1844 ID: 2340
Joint Stock Companies Act - first general incorporation in England, registration without special charter, but unlimited liability remains
ID: 2340
Westminster
1844 ID: 841
May 8, 1844
Pope Gregory XVI condemns Bible societies in Inter Praecipuas
ID: 841

Books & Texts from 1844

📖 charles-dickens - martin-chuzzlewit
📖 charles-dickens - the-chimes
📖 alexander-william-kinglake - eothen-or-traces-of-travel-brought-home-from-the-east
📖 william-gilmore-simms - the-life-of-francis-marion