Timeline March 1844

Events in March 1844 6

• 1763 – 1844 Charles XIV John Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte A French Marshal under Napoleon elected to the Swedish throne. He founded the current dynasty.
• 1770 – 1844 Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) Died 24 March 1844, aged 73 Danish neoclassical sculptor who worked in Rome for four decades. His works include the Lion of Lucerne and the Christ statue in Copenhagen Cathedral.
• 1844 Oscar I becomes King of Sweden and Norway Succeeds his father Charles XIV John Oscar I succeeded to the thrones of Sweden and Norway on the death of his father, the former French marshal Bernadotte. His reign brought moderate liberal reforms, including equal inheritance rights for women in Sweden.
• 1844 The Three Musketeers serialised Dumas's novel appears in Le Siècle Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers was published in instalments in the Paris newspaper Le Siècle. It followed d'Artagnan and the musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis. It became one of the most widely read adventure novels ever written.
• 1844 – 1897 Minna Canth Social Reformer The first major female writer and social activist whose work focused on women’s rights and the poor.
• 1844 Greece adopts its first constitution under King Otto Constitutional monarchy follows the 3 September Revolution After the military uprising of September 1843, a national assembly drafted a constitution that King Otto accepted. It turned Greece into a constitutional monarchy with an elected parliament and an appointed senate.