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| 1844 |
| | | James Polk pledges in his presidential campaign to include the self-proclaimed republic of Texas in the USA | |
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| 1844 |
| | | The Young Men's Christian Association is founded in London by British drapery assistant George Williams | |
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| | | The Mormon leader, Joseph Smith, and his brother are killed by an armed mob in Nauvoo | |
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| 1844 |
| | | The other half of Hispaniola joins Haiti in declaring independence, as the Dominican Republic | |
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| 1844 |
| | | Samuel Morse and his assistant Alfred Vail complete the first telegraph line, between New York and Baltimore | |
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| 1844 |
| | | Democratic candidate James Polk is elected president of the USA, defeating the Whig Henry Clay | |
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| 1845 |
| | | Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Raven and Other Poems | |
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| 1845 |
| | | New Yorker Alexander Cartwright devises the set of rules that become the basis of the modern game of baseball | |
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| 1845 |
| | | British archaeologist Henry Layard, in his first month of digging in Iraq, discovers the Assyrian city of Nimrud | |
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| 1845 |
| | | English naval officer John Franklin sets off with two ships, Erebus and Terror, to search for the Northwest Passage | |
|  | Carmichael HMS Erebus and Terror in the Arctic (detail)
National Maritime Museum
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