← 1843 1842 1841 1840 1839 1844 in China → 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849
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 — Lin Yunke
• Viceroy of Huguang — Yutai
• Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — Funiyang'a
• Viceroy of Liangguang — Qi Gong then Qiying
• Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Guiliang
• Viceroy of Sichuan — Gioro-Baoxing
• Viceroy of Liangjiang — Qiying then Bichang/Sun Shanbao

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 Ningbo