1844 in China

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Decades:	1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	Other events of 1844 History of China  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year 1844 in China.

Incumbents[]

• Daoguang Emperor (24th year)

Viceroys[]

• Viceroy of Zhili — Nergingge
• Viceroy of Min-Zhe —
• Viceroy of Huguang —
• Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — ?
• Viceroy of Liangguang —
• Viceroy of Yun-Gui —
• Viceroy of Sichuan —
• Viceroy of Liangjiang —

Events[]

• 3 July — Treaty of Wanghia signed by the Great Qing Empire and the United States at the Kun Iam Temple in Macau, Portuguese Macau
• The Chinese Union, an early Chinese Protestant Christian missionary society that was involved in preaching to Chinese and sending Chinese workers to Mainland China^[1] during the late Qing Dynasty was founded by Karl Gützlaff in 1844, Hong Kong
• Renji Hospital, the first western hospital in Shanghai, established
• Mary Ann Aldersey, an eccentric British woman, who opens a school for girls in Ningpo

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