Editing 1844 (section)

=== October–December ===
* [[October 18]] – [[1844 Salta earthquake]]. A magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits [[Argentina]]'s [[Salta Province]].
* [[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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adventist.org/beliefs/fundamental/index.html |title=Beliefs: The Official Site of the Seventh-day Adventist world church |publisher=Adventist.org |access-date=2015-11-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060310104717/http://www.adventist.org/beliefs/fundamental/index.html |archive-date=March 10, 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[October 23]] – The [[Báb]] is publicly proclaimed to be the promised one of Islam (the [[Al-Qāʾim Āl Muḥammad|Qá'im]], or [[Mahdi]]). He is also considered to be simultaneously the return of [[Elijah]], [[John the Baptist]] and the "[[Ushídar-Máh]]" referred to in the [[Zoroastrianism|Zoroastrian]] scriptures.<ref name="gpb_58">{{cite book|first=Effendi |last=Shoghi |author-link=Shoghi Effendi |year=1944 |title=God Passes By |publisher=Baháʼí Publishing Trust |location=Wilmette, Illinois, US |isbn=0-87743-020-9 |url=http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/se/GPB/gpb-5.html#pg58 |page=58 |access-date=2012-03-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119172544/http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/se/GPB/gpb-5.html |archive-date=January 19, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> He announces to the world the coming of "[[He whom God shall make manifest]]". He is considered the forerunner of [[Bahá'u'lláh]] – the founder of the [[Baháʼí Faith]] – whose claims include being the return of [[Jesus]].
* [[November 3]] – [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s opera ''[[I due Foscari]]'' debuts at [[Largo di Torre Argentina|Teatro Argentina]], Rome.
* [[November 6]] – The [[Dominican Republic]] drafts its first [[Constitution]].
* [[December 4]] – [[1844 United States presidential election]]: [[James K. Polk]] defeats [[Henry Clay]].
* [[December 13]] – [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] becomes the official language of [[Hungary]].<ref>[http://www.kozlonyok.hu/nkonline/MKPDF/hiteles/MK11111.pdf Magyar Közlöny – A MAGYAR KÖZTÁRSASÁG HIVATALOS LAPJA 29 September, 2011]</ref>
* [[December 21]] – The [[Rochdale Pioneers]] commence business at their [[cooperative]] in [[Rochdale]], England.
* [[December 31]] – This date is omitted from the calendar in the [[Philippines]] in order to align it with the calendar elsewhere in East Asia, essentially moving the [[International_Date_Line#Philippines_(1521_and_1844)|International Date Line]] to the east of the archipelago.