Editing 1844 (section)

=== April–June ===
* [[May 1]] – The [[Hong Kong Police Force]], the world's second and Asia's first modern, police force is established.
* [[May 23]] – [[Persian people|Persian]] [[prophet]] The [[Báb]] privately announces his revelation to [[Mullá Husayn]], just after sunset, founding the [[Bábism|Bábí faith]] (later evolving into the Baháʼí Faith as the Báb [[He whom God shall make manifest|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 3]] – The last definitely recorded pair of [[great auk]]s are killed on the [[Iceland]]ic island of [[Eldey]].
* [[June 4]] – Start of the [[Silesian weavers' uprising]]. It is crushed by Prussian military on June 6, with 11 weavers killed and numerous arrested.
* [[June 6]] – [[George Williams (YMCA)|George Williams]] sets up (in London) what is often cited as the first youth organisation in the world<ref>[[History of youth work]]</ref> – "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 12]] –In the United States, after nine days of heavy rains, the [[Missouri River]] and the [[Mississippi River]] overflow their banks as the [[Great Flood of 1844]] begins. The water begins to recede by [[June 28]] and the rivers return to their normal level by mid-July.<ref>''Emerson W. Gould, [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fifty_Years_on_the_Mississippi_Or_Gould/udyywXOVBvsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Mississippi+flood+June+1844&pg=PA248&printsec=frontcover Fifty Years on the Mississippi; Or, Gould's History of River Navigation]'' (Nixon-Jones Printing Company, 1889) pp.247-248</ref>   
* [[June 15]] – [[Charles Goodyear]] receives a United States [[patent]] for [[vulcanization]], a process to strengthen [[rubber]].
* [[June 17]] – [[Søren Kierkegaard]]'s ''[[The Concept of Anxiety]]'' is published in Denmark (as ''Begrebet Angest'' by 'Vigilius Haufniensis').
* [[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.  
* [[June 27]] – [[Killing of Joseph Smith]]: [[Joseph Smith]], founder of the [[Latter Day Saint movement]], and his brother [[Hyrum Smith|Hyrum]], are murdered in [[Carthage Jail]], [[Carthage, Illinois]] by an armed mob, leading to a [[Succession crisis (Latter Day Saints)|succession crisis in the movement]]. [[John Taylor (Mormon)|John Taylor]], future president of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]], is severely injured but survives, while the fourth man inside the upper room, then-apostle [[Willard Richards]], escapes with only a graze to his upper ear.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/135.6?lang=eng|title=Doctrine and Covenants 135|website=www.churchofjesuschrist.org|access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref>