1344
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| Years: 1341 1342 1343 - 1344 - 1345 1346 1347 |
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| Decades: 1310s 1320s 1330s - 1340s - 1350s 1360s 1370s |
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| Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century |
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| 1344 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1344 MCCCXLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2097 |
| Armenian calendar | 793 ԹՎ ՉՂԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -500 – -499 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1888 |
| Chinese calendar | 3980/4040-12-15 (癸未年十二月十五日) — to —
3981/4041-11-26(甲申年十一月廿六日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1336 – 1337 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5104 – 5105 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1399 – 1400 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1266 – 1267 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4445 – 4446 |
| Holocene calendar | 11344 |
| Iranian calendar | 722 – 723 |
| Islamic calendar | 744 – 745 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2004 (皇紀2004年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11344 |
| Julian calendar | 1389 |
| Korean calendar | 3677 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1887 |
[edit] Events
- English king Edward III introduces three new gold coins, the florin. leopard, and helm. Unfortunately the amount of gold in the coins does not match their value of six shillings, three shillings, and one shilling and sixpence, so they have to be withdrawn and mostly melted down by August of this year.
- Vesse, the rebel King of Saaremaa island in Estonia, was hanged.
[edit] Births
- Meinhard III, Count of Tyrol
- Parameswara, Malay Srivijayan prince (died 1424)
[edit] Deaths
- Constantine IV of Armenia
- Gersonides, French rabbi and mathematician (born 1288)
- Jaghmini, Persian physician
- Simone Martini, Sienese painter (born 1284)
- William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury (born 1301)
- Vesse, the rebel King of Saaremaa
