# 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.

* George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough ( 1844 – 1892 ), eldest son of the 7th Duke

* 1763 – Charles XIV John of Sweden, Napoleonic general ( d. 1844 )

* 1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.

The second French school was Symbolism, which literary historians see beginning with the poet Charles Baudelaire ( 1861 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal, 1857 ), and including the later poets, Arthur Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ), Paul Verlaine ( 1844 – 96 ), Stéphane Mallarmé ( 1842 – 98 ), and Paul Valéry ( 1871 – 1945 ).

* Darwin, Charles, Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, Chapter 4, Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1844.

Slingshots depend on strong elastic materials, typically vulcanized natural rubber or the equivalent, and thus date back no further than the invention of vulcanized rubber by Charles Goodyear in 1839 ( patented in 1844 ).

The explorer Charles Sturt, who visited the region from 1844 – 1846, was the first European to see the desert, but it was not until 1936 that Ted Colson became the first white person to cross it in its entirety.

** Charles Romley Alder Wright, British chemist synthesized Heroin ( b. 1844 )

* April 29 – Charles Nodier, French author ( d. 1844 )

* July 21 – Thomas Charles Hope, Scottish chemist and discoverer of strontium ( d. 1844 )

* January 26 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, King Charles XIV John of Sweden, and Charles III John of Norway ( d. 1844 )

Charles XIV & III John, also Carl John, Swedish and Norwegian: Karl Johan ( 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844 ) was King of Sweden ( as Charles XIV John ) and King of Norway ( as Charles III John ) from 1818 until his death.

On 26 January 1844, his 81st birthday, Charles John was found unconscious in his chambers having suffered a stroke.

During Charles XIV reign ( 1818 – 1844 ), the first stage of the Industrial Revolution reached Sweden.

Ponzi did not invent the scheme ( for example, Charles Dickens ' 1844 novel Martin Chuzzlewitt and 1857 novel Little Dorrit each described such a scheme ), but his operation took in so much money that it was the first to become known throughout the United States.

Clay granted Charles Dupuy his freedom in 1844.

* Charles Wyndham Murray ( 1844 – 1928 ), British Army officer and politician

* 1844 – Charles Piazzi Smyth proposes comfort cooling

The English version was invented in 1829 by Sir Charles Wheatstone and a patent for an improved version was filed by him in 1844.

Catalan's conjecture ( or Mihăilescu's theorem ) is a theorem in number theory that was conjectured by the mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan in 1844 and proven in 2002 by Preda Mihăilescu.

Charles Dickens, who was influenced by Fielding, wrote his first six novels in the picaresque form, with Martin Chuzzlewit ( 1844 ) being the transitional novel to his later more serious and mature works.

Gerald's father, William Robert Gardner ( 1844 – 1935 ) had been the youngest son of Joseph Gardner ( b. 1791 ), after whom the firm had been renamed, and who with his wife Maria had had five sons and three daughters.

* Maria Hack ( 1777 – 1844 ), English writer

* Maria Woodworth-Etter ( 1844 – 1924 ) – Healing evangelist

The Byron play served as the basis for the libretto written by Francesco Maria Piave for Giuseppe Verdi's opera I due Foscari, which premiered on 3 November 1844 in Rome.

When her husband openly acknowledged his paternity of a daughter born to Emilie in 1844, Maria Anna sued for divorce.

Howard came to Jackson County in 1842 from Kentucky, married Maria in 1844, and by 1850 he and Maria had and a homestead five miles ( 8 km ) north of town.

He married in 1814 Catherine, eldest daughter of Peter Martineau, by whom he had one son, who died in infancy, and in 1844 Maria Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William Hutchins, by whom he had six sons ( of whom the eldest, Edward, a barrister, assisted in the preparation of the ‘ Biographia Juridica ’) and three daughters.

* Fabio Maria Asquini ( 1844 – 1845 )

Benjamin and Elizabeth had seven more daughters ( Margaret ( 1760 – 1824 ), Juliana ( 1765 – 1845 ), Henrietta ( 1767 – 1848 ), Sophia ( 1769 – 1841 ), Maria ( 1771 – 1840 ), Harriet ( 1775 – 1861 ), and Catherine ( 1779 – 1831 )) and two sons ( Benjamin Jr. ( 1758 – 1844 ) and Joseph ( 1763 – 1764 )).

He published his first collection of poetry in 1841 and married Maria White in 1844.

In 1844 Lewis married Lady Maria Theresa Villiers, a lady of literary tastes.

* Archduke Raineri Salvatore Maria Gaetano Giuseppe Giovanni Filippo Jacopo Antonius Zanobi Lodovico Gonzaga ( Rainer Salvator Maria Gaëtan Joseph Johann Phillipp Jacob Antonius Zanobius Ludwig Gonzaga ) ( Florence, 1 May 1842-Florence, 14 August 1844 ).

In 1844 there was a new redecoration under Niccolini his son Fausto and Francesco Maria dei Giudice.

By Dinah Maria Mulock — 1844 May, in The New Monthly Belle Assemblee Vol. 20, p. 275

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Bovill had married Maria Bolton, eldest daughter of John Henry Bolton of Lee Park, Blackheath, in 1844.

Wilhelm Maria Hubertus Leibl ( October 23, 1844 – December 4, 1900 ) was a German realist painter of portraits and scenes of peasant life.