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1844

• Alexandre Dumas père publishes Les Trois Mousquetaires (The Three Musketeers)
• Electric turbines are developed
• Samuel F. B. Morse invents the telegraph
• Orestes Brownson founds Brownson’s Quarterly Review in Boston
• Sarah Winnemucca is born
• The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is founded
• Alexandre Dumas père publishes Le Comte de Monte Cristo (Edmond Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo)
• William Beckford dies (May 2)
• Friedrich Nietzsche is born (October 15)
• Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault (“Anatole France”) is born (April 16)
• Robert Bridges is born (October 23)
• Gerard Manley Hopkins is born (July 28)
• Paul Verlaine is born (March 30)