1344
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
Decades: | 1310s 1320s 1330s – 1340s – 1350s 1360s 1370s |
Years: | 1341 1342 1343 – 1344 – 1345 1346 1347 |
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1344 in poetry | |
Gregorian calendar | 1344 MCCCXLIV |
Ab urbe condita | 2097 |
Armenian calendar | 793 ԹՎ ՉՂԳ |
Assyrian calendar | 6094 |
Bengali calendar | 751 |
Berber calendar | 2294 |
English Regnal year | 17 Edw. 3 – 18 Edw. 3 |
Buddhist calendar | 1888 |
Burmese calendar | 706 |
Byzantine calendar | 6852–6853 |
Chinese calendar | 癸未年 (Water Goat) 4040 or 3980 — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4041 or 3981 |
Coptic calendar | 1060–1061 |
Discordian calendar | 2510 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1336–1337 |
Hebrew calendar | 5104–5105 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1400–1401 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1266–1267 |
- Kali Yuga | 4445–4446 |
Holocene calendar | 11344 |
Igbo calendar | 344–345 |
Iranian calendar | 722–723 |
Islamic calendar | 744–745 |
Japanese calendar | Kōei 3 (康永3年) |
Julian calendar | 1344 MCCCXLIV |
Korean calendar | 3677 |
Minguo calendar | 568 before ROC 民前568年 |
Thai solar calendar | 1886–1887 |
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Year 1344 (MCCCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- March 26 – The Siege of Algeciras, one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder was used, comes to an end.
- October 24 – Smyrniote Crusade: a Christian fleet succeeds in taking the port city of Smyrna from the Aydinid Turks.[1]
- December 15 – Seven-year-old Erik Magnusson, the eldest son of king Magnus V of Sweden, is appointed heir to the Swedish throne, even though Sweden, at this time, is an elective monarchy.
Date unknown
- King Edward III of England introduces three new gold coins, the florin, leopard, and helm. Unfortunately the amount of gold in the coins does not match their value of 6 shillings, 3 shillings, and 1 shilling and sixpence, so they have to be withdrawn and mostly melted down by August of this year.
- The St. George's Night Uprising: Livonian Order hangs Vesse, the rebel Estonian Elder of Saaremaa Island.
- Bablake School was founded in Coventry, England by Queen Isabella.
- The Compagnia dei Bardi in Florence goes bankrupt, along with the Peruzzi Bank and the Acciaiuoli Bank.
- Famine in China.
- King Peter IV of Aragon defeats and deposes his cousin, James III of Majorca, thereby absorbing the Balearic Kingdom of Majorca into the Crown of Aragon.
Births
- February 9 – Meinhard III, Count of Tyrol (d. 1363)
- September 18 – Marie Valois, daughter of King John II of France (d. 1404)
- October 10 – Mary Plantagenet, daughter of King Edward III of England (d. 1362)
- date unknown
- Beatrix of Bavaria, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1359)
- Azzo X d'Este, condottiero (d. 1415)
- John I, Count of La Marche (d. 1393)
- Parameswara, Malay Srivijayan prince (d. 1424)
Deaths
- January 11 – Thomas Charlton, bishop and Lord High Treasurer of England
- January 30 – William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury (b.1301)
- April 17 – Gosdantin II of Armenia
- July 11 – Ulrich III, Count of Württemberg (b. c. 1286)
- date unknown
- Gersonides, French rabbi and mathematician (b. 1288)
- Raoul I of Brienne, Count of Eu
- Wajih ad-Din Mas'ud, leader of the Sarbadars of Sabzewar
- probable – Simone Martini, Sienese painter (b. 1284)
References
- ↑ Lock, Peter (2013). The Routledge Companion to the Crusades. Routledge. p. 127. ISBN 9781135131371.