1044

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1010s 1020s 1030s – 1040s – 1050s 1060s 1070s
Years:	1041 1042 1043 – 1044 – 1045 1046 1047

1044 by topic
Lists of leaders
State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

1044 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1044 MXLIV
Ab urbe condita	1797
Armenian calendar	493 ԹՎ ՆՂԳ
Assyrian calendar	5794
Bengali calendar	451
Berber calendar	1994
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1588
Burmese calendar	406
Byzantine calendar	6552–6553
Chinese calendar	癸未年 (Water Goat) 3740 or 3680 — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3741 or 3681
Coptic calendar	760–761
Discordian calendar	2210
Ethiopian calendar	1036–1037
Hebrew calendar	4804–4805
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1100–1101
- Shaka Samvat	966–967
- Kali Yuga	4145–4146
Holocene calendar	11044
Igbo calendar	44–45
Iranian calendar	422–423
Islamic calendar	435–436
Japanese calendar	Chōkyū 5 / Kantoku 1 (寛徳元年)
Julian calendar	1044 MXLIV
Korean calendar	3377
Minguo calendar	868 before ROC 民前868年
Seleucid era	1355/1356 AG
Thai solar calendar	1586–1587

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Year 1044 (MXLIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

September – Pope Benedict IX is forced out of office and Sylvester III elected to succeed him.
King Anawrahta seizes the throne of Pagan, Myanmar.
The Chinese military treatise of the Wujing Zongyao is written and compiled by scholars Zeng Gongliang (曾公亮), Ding Du (丁度), and Yang Weide (楊惟德) during the Song Dynasty. It is the first book in history to include formulas for gunpowder and its use for various bombs (thrown by sling or trebuchet catapult). It also describes the double-piston pump flamethrower and a thermoremanence compass, a few decades before Shen Kuo wrote of the first known magnetic mariners compass. Although emphasizing the importance of many weapons, it reserves high respect for the crossbow and ability of crossbowmen to fell charging units of nomadic cavalrymen.