* Henry Austin ( baseball ) ( 1844 – 1904 ), American baseball player

* 1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( d. 1900 )

* 1844 – James Henry Greathead, English engineer ( d. 1896 )

* 1844 – Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist ( d. 1911 )

* 1844 – The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

* 1844 – Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1924 )

* 1844 – Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist and politician ( d. 1908 )

b., pp. 716 – 726 ( 1844 ); William Francis Ainsworth, Euphrates Expedition, i. 401-418 ( 1888 ).

* 1844 – Edward Carpenter, English poet ( d. 1929 )

* 1844 – Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader ( d. 1929 )

* 1930 – Robert Bridges, English poet ( b. 1844 )

Abdur Rahman Khan () ( between 1830 to 1844 – October 1, 1901 ) was Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901.

* 1924 – G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist ( b. 1844 )

* 1803 – Flora Tristan, French philosopher ( d. 1844 )

‘ Abdu ’ l-Bahá (‎; 23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921 ), born ‘ Abbás Effendí, was the eldest son of Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith.

* Karl Benz ( 1844 – 1929 ), German engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur who built the first patented automobile in 1885

* Jacques Laffitte ( 1767 – 1844 ), banker and politician

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

# Joseph Bonaparte ( Corte 1768 – Florence 1844 ), King of Naples and Spain, married Julie Clary, sister of Napoleon's childhood sweetheart, Désirée, who was to become the wife of General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, the later Charles XIV of Sweden.

In 1844 the U. S. Democratic Party, appealing to expansionist sentiment and the popular theme of manifest destiny, asserted that the U. S. had a valid claim to the entire Oregon Country up to Russian America at parallel 54 ° 40 ′ north.

* Contributed to St Mary's Church, Dalkeith Palace, Midlothian ( 1844 – 54 )

This Act ( citation 13 & 14 Vict c. 54 ) redefined the workday which had been established under the Factory Acts of 1844 and 1847.

This Act ( citation 13 & 14 Vict c. 54 ) redefined the workday which had been established under the Factory Acts of 1844 and 1847.

On 18 December 1844 Le Fanu married Susanna Bennett, the daughter of a leading Dublin barrister.

Drogheda acquired rail links to Dublin in 1844, Navan in 1850 and Belfast in 1852.

The Nation was printed first at 12 Trinity Street, Dublin, on 15 October 1842, until 6 January 1844.

This gateway originally stood beside the river Liffey at Bloody Bridge ( now Rory O ' More Bridge ), but had to be moved after the arrival of the railway in 1844 increased traffic congestion ( obviously not new to Dublin ).

He was ordained in 1844 to the curacy of St Thomas's, Dublin, but, being threatened with tuberculosis, went after two years to Málaga, Spain.

In 1844 he became professor of geology in the University of Dublin.

The history of the institution can be traced to August 6, 1835 when civil engineers met in Dublin ; the result was the Civil Engineers Society of Ireland, in 1844 the society adopted the name the Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland ( ICEI ).

* the Dublin and Drogheda Railway ( D & D ), also incorporated 1839, opened in 1844.

After a short time as a pupil of a surgeon in Barnsley ( Yorkshire ), he studied medicine at Leeds, Trinity College Dublin, St Thomas ' Hospital ( becoming a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons ( MRCS ) in 1841 and a Fellow ( FRCS ) in 1844 ), and later in Paris, France.

The station opened on 29 November 1844 by the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Company as Dublin Station, but was renamed Amiens Street Station ten years later after the street on which it is located.

* 25 June-William Martin Murphy, Nationalist ( Irish Parliamentary Party ) MP, newspaper proprietor, leader of employer's syndicate in the Dublin Lockout of 1913 ( born 1844 ).

For example, the Dublin-Belfast railway line follows the line of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway along the coast ( MacNeill was knighted in 1844 following its completion ) and many of its impressive original structures remain ( e. g.: the 98 ft high Boyne Viaduct built between 1851 and 1855 near Drogheda, the 18-arch, 126 ft high Craigmore Viaduct near Bessbrook and the nearby MacNeill's Egyptian Arch ).

Rush and Lusk railway station, opened on 25 May 1844, is served by Commuter ( formerly " Arrow ") suburban trains between Dublin and Drogheda.

Lieutenant-Colonel James Henry Reynolds VC ( 3 February 1844 – 4 March 1932 ), born Kingstown ( Dún Laoghaire ), County Dublin, was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

The remainder was built between 1844 and 1850 by the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company as the route of the Irish Mail services to Dublin.

After a distinguished career in Trinity College, Dublin, Samuel was elected a fellow in 1844.

Construction work on the Great South Wall and Bull Wall in Dublin Port changed the flow of water in Dublin Bay, threatening its existence, though it was in fact eventually destroyed by a large storm in 1844.

Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, LLD 1844 ; barrister, 1840 ; Queen's Counsel, 1854 ; Vicar-General of the province of Armagh, 1862 ; Queen's Advocate in Ireland, 1865 ; Solicitor General for Ireland, 1868 ; Attorney General for Ireland, 1868 and 1874 – 1875.

Edmund O ' Donovan ( 1844 – 1883 ), Irish war-correspondent, was born at Dublin on the 13th of September 1844, the son of John O ' Donovan ( 1809 – 1861 ), a well-known Irish archaeologist and topographer.

A description from 1844 states: " The town is comparatively well-built and respectively inhabited ; and is not equaled in appearance by any place between it and Dublin except Navan.

* William Martin Murphy ( 1844 – 1919 ), Irish industrialist and newspaper proprietor, involved in the Dublin Lockout