Timeline August 1844

Events in August 1844 4

• 1774 – 1844 Francis Baily (1774-1844) Died 30 August 1844, aged 70 English astronomer and a founder of the Royal Astronomical Society. He described "Baily's beads", the points of sunlight seen at the edge of the Moon during a solar eclipse.
• 1844 Battle of Isly French army routs Moroccan forces near Oujda French forces under Marshal Thomas-Robert Bugeaud defeated a much larger Moroccan army commanded by the sultan's son near the Isly river. Morocco had given shelter to the Algerian resistance leader Abd al-Qadir. The defeat forced Morocco to sign the Treaty of Tangier that September.
• 1844 Marx and Engels meet in Paris Start of a lifelong intellectual partnership Friedrich Engels met Karl Marx at the Café de la Régence in Paris and spent ten days with him. The two found they agreed on most questions and began their collaboration. Their joint work led to The Communist Manifesto four years later.
• 1844 The Count of Monte Cristo begins serialisation Dumas's revenge novel starts in the Journal des Débats Alexandre Dumas began publishing The Count of Monte Cristo in instalments in the Journal des Débats. The story of Edmond Dantès's imprisonment and revenge ran until 1846. It became one of the best-known novels in French literature.