Editing 1844 (section)

=== January–March ===
* [[January 4]] – The first issue of the Swedish-languaged [[Saima (newspaper)|''Saima'' newspaper]] founded by [[Johan Vilhelm Snellman|J. V. Snellman]] is published in [[Kuopio|Kuopio, Finland]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/titles/1457-456X/data?set_language=en|title=Saima|work=Digital Collections|publisher=The [[National Library of Finland]]|access-date=22 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://snellman.kootutteokset.fi/en/dokumentit/saima-nro-1-411844|title=Saima nro 1, 4.1.1844 |work=Selected Works of J V. Snellman|access-date=22 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[January 15]] – The [[University of Notre Dame]], based in [[Notre Dame, Indiana|the city of the same name]], receives its charter from [[Indiana]].
* [[February 27]] – The [[Dominican Republic]] gains independence from [[Haiti]].
* [[February 28]] – A gun on the [[USS Princeton disaster of 1844|USS ''Princeton'']] explodes while the boat is on a [[Potomac River]] cruise, killing U.S. Secretary of State [[Abel Upshur]], U.S. Secretary of the Navy [[Thomas Walker Gilmer]] and four other people. President [[John Tyler]] is below decks and is uninjured.<ref>{{cite book|title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography|volume=IV|location=New York|date=1897|publisher=James T. White & Company|page=552 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8yiCFcMGYgQC&pg=PA552 |access-date=March 15, 2017}}</ref>
* [[March 8]]
** King [[Oscar I of Sweden|Oscar I]] ascends to the throne of [[Union between Sweden and Norway|Sweden–Norway]] upon the death of his father, [[Charles XIV John|Charles XIV/III John]].
** The [[Althing]], the parliament of [[Iceland]], is reopened after 45 years of closure.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sigurðardóttir|first1=Heiða María|last2=Emilsson|first2=Páll Emil|title=Hvenær var Alþingi stofnað?|url=https://www.visindavefur.is/svar.php?id=5268|website=visindavefur.is|publisher=Vísindavefurinn|access-date=September 3, 2021}}</ref>
* [[March 9]] – [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s opera ''[[Ernani]]'' debuts at Teatro [[La Fenice]], Venice.
* [[March 12]] – The [[Columbus and Xenia Railroad]], the first railroad planned to be built in [[Ohio]], is chartered.
* [[March 13]] – The dictator [[Carlos Antonio López]] becomes first President of [[Paraguay]].
* [[March 21]] – The [[Baháʼí calendar]] begins.
* [[March 23]] – The [[Edict of Toleration (1844)|Edict of Toleration]] is passed in the [[Ottoman Empire]].