May 1 – The
Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second and Asia's first modern, police force is established.
May 23 –
Persianprophet The
Báb privately announces his revelation to
Mullá Husayn, just after sunset, founding the
Bábí faith (later evolving into the Baháʼí Faith as the Báb
intended) in Shiraz, Persia (modern-day Iran). Contemporaneously, on this day in nearby Tehran, is the birth of
`Abdu'l-Bahá; the eldest Son of
Bahá'u'lláh, Prophet-Founder of the
Baháʼí Faith. The Báb's mission is to proclaim
He whom God shall make manifest. `Abdu'l-Bahá Himself is later proclaimed by Bahá'u'lláh to be His own successor, thus being the third "central figure" of the Baháʼí Faith.
May 24 – The first
electrical telegram is sent by
Samuel Morse from the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. to the B&O Railroad "outer depot" in
Baltimore, saying "What hath God wrought".
June 6 –
George Williams sets up (in London) what is often cited as the first youth organisation in the world[5] – "The Young Men's Christian Association", commonly known as
YMCA. It will grow to a worldwide organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 57 million beneficiaries from 125 national associations. George Williams aims to put Christian principles into practice by developing a healthy "body, mind, and spirit." These three angles are reflected by the different sides of the (red) triangle – part of all YMCA logos.
June 22 – The
Delta Kappa Epsilon student fraternity is founded at
Yale College in the United States. ΔΚΕ will be home to many well known figures, such as U.S. Presidents George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford and Theodore Roosevelt.
July 3 – The United States signs the
Treaty of Wanghia with the Qing Empire.[7] The treaty establishes five U.S.
treaty ports in China with
extraterritoriality and is the first unequal treaty that the United States imposed on the dynasty.
July 19 – The
Bank Charter Act of 1844 is approved, which restricts the powers of British banks, limiting note-issuing powers outside the central Bank of England.
August 16 –
Narciso Claveria,
Governor-General of the Philippines, makes a decree announcing that Monday, December 30, 1844, will be immediately followed by Wednesday, January 1, 1845. (Tuesday, December 31, 1844, is removed from the Philippine calendar because since 1521 the country has been one day behind its
Asian neighbors.)
October 22 – This second date predicted by the
Millerites for the
Second Coming of
Jesus (and said to be 6,000 years from creation, relating them to the 6 days of creation, using a day-for-a-year bible principle, with which they proved that the 1,000 years of rest in heaven with God would total to 7,000 years, indicating the completion of creation in the beginning, which make 7 days, but the 7th day is for rest, same as the 7,000th year is for rest in heaven), leads to the
Great Disappointment. The
Seventh-day Adventist Church believes this date to be the starting point of the
Investigative judgment, just prior to the Second Coming of Jesus, as declared in the 26th of 28 fundamental doctrines of Seventh-day Adventists.[9]
The Free Church Institution is established by Reverend
Alexander Duff in
Calcutta, India. This is later merged with the General Assembly's Institution to form the
Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushers in the
Bengali Renaissance.
May 1 – The
Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second and Asia's first modern, police force is established.
May 23 –
Persianprophet The
Báb privately announces his revelation to
Mullá Husayn, just after sunset, founding the
Bábí faith (later evolving into the Baháʼí Faith as the Báb
intended) in Shiraz, Persia (modern-day Iran). Contemporaneously, on this day in nearby Tehran, is the birth of
`Abdu'l-Bahá; the eldest Son of
Bahá'u'lláh, Prophet-Founder of the
Baháʼí Faith. The Báb's mission is to proclaim
He whom God shall make manifest. `Abdu'l-Bahá Himself is later proclaimed by Bahá'u'lláh to be His own successor, thus being the third "central figure" of the Baháʼí Faith.
May 24 – The first
electrical telegram is sent by
Samuel Morse from the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. to the B&O Railroad "outer depot" in
Baltimore, saying "What hath God wrought".
June 6 –
George Williams sets up (in London) what is often cited as the first youth organisation in the world[5] – "The Young Men's Christian Association", commonly known as
YMCA. It will grow to a worldwide organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 57 million beneficiaries from 125 national associations. George Williams aims to put Christian principles into practice by developing a healthy "body, mind, and spirit." These three angles are reflected by the different sides of the (red) triangle – part of all YMCA logos.
June 22 – The
Delta Kappa Epsilon student fraternity is founded at
Yale College in the United States. ΔΚΕ will be home to many well known figures, such as U.S. Presidents George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford and Theodore Roosevelt.
July 3 – The United States signs the
Treaty of Wanghia with the Qing Empire.[7] The treaty establishes five U.S.
treaty ports in China with
extraterritoriality and is the first unequal treaty that the United States imposed on the dynasty.
July 19 – The
Bank Charter Act of 1844 is approved, which restricts the powers of British banks, limiting note-issuing powers outside the central Bank of England.
August 16 –
Narciso Claveria,
Governor-General of the Philippines, makes a decree announcing that Monday, December 30, 1844, will be immediately followed by Wednesday, January 1, 1845. (Tuesday, December 31, 1844, is removed from the Philippine calendar because since 1521 the country has been one day behind its
Asian neighbors.)
October 22 – This second date predicted by the
Millerites for the
Second Coming of
Jesus (and said to be 6,000 years from creation, relating them to the 6 days of creation, using a day-for-a-year bible principle, with which they proved that the 1,000 years of rest in heaven with God would total to 7,000 years, indicating the completion of creation in the beginning, which make 7 days, but the 7th day is for rest, same as the 7,000th year is for rest in heaven), leads to the
Great Disappointment. The
Seventh-day Adventist Church believes this date to be the starting point of the
Investigative judgment, just prior to the Second Coming of Jesus, as declared in the 26th of 28 fundamental doctrines of Seventh-day Adventists.[9]
The Free Church Institution is established by Reverend
Alexander Duff in
Calcutta, India. This is later merged with the General Assembly's Institution to form the
Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushers in the
Bengali Renaissance.