1444

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1410s 1420s 1430s – 1440s – 1450s 1460s 1470s
Years:	1441 1442 1443 – 1444 – 1445 1446 1447

1444 by topic
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1444 in poetry

1444 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1444 MCDXLIV
Ab urbe condita	2197
Armenian calendar	893 ԹՎ ՊՂԳ
Assyrian calendar	6194
Bengali calendar	851
Berber calendar	2394
English Regnal year	22 Hen. 6 – 23 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1988
Burmese calendar	806
Byzantine calendar	6952–6953
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4140 or 4080 — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4141 or 4081
Coptic calendar	1160–1161
Discordian calendar	2610
Ethiopian calendar	1436–1437
Hebrew calendar	5204–5205
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1500–1501
- Shaka Samvat	1366–1367
- Kali Yuga	4545–4546
Holocene calendar	11444
Igbo calendar	444–445
Iranian calendar	822–823
Islamic calendar	847–848
Japanese calendar	Kakitsu 4 / Bunnan 1 (文安元年)
Julian calendar	1444 MCDXLIV
Korean calendar	3777
Minguo calendar	468 before ROC 民前468年
Thai solar calendar	1986–1987

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Year 1444 (MCDXLIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

March 2 – The League of Lezhë, an alliance of Albanian principalities, is established in Lezhë; George Kastrioti Skanderbeg is proclaimed commander of the Albanian resistance.
May 22 – The Treaty of Tours, signed between England and France, secures a truce in the Hundred Years' War for 5 years.
June 15 – Cosimo de' Medici founds the Laurentian Library in Florence.
June 29 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman army at the Battle of Torvioll.
August 15 – Peace of Szeged between the Turkish Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary.
August 26 – Old Zurich War – Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: Charles VII of France, seeking to send away troublesome troops made idle by the truce with England, sends his son the Dauphin Louis with a large army into Switzerland to support the claims of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor. The massively outnumbered Swiss force is destroyed in this battle, but inflict such casualties on the French that they withdraw.
August – After making peace with the Karamanids, Ottoman Sultan Murad II abdicates in favor of his son Mehmed II.
November 10 – Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Władysław III of Poland and Hungary are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II. Władysław is killed, ending the Jagiellonian Union of Hungary and Poland.

Constantine XI Palaiologos, as ruler of the Despotate of the Morea, invades the Duchy of Athens (at this time under Florentine control) and forces it to pay tribute and to return Thebes to the Byzantine Empire.
Forces of the Sultan of Egypt fail to take Rhodes from the Knights of Rhodes.
Portuguese explorers reach the mouth of the rivers Senegal and Gambia.
Portuguese fleet of caravels led by Lançarote de Freitas lands 235 slaves at Algarve, Portugal.
The first European slave market for the sale of African slaves, the Mercado de Escravos, opens in Lagos, Portugal.
A serious fire occurs at Old St Paul's Cathedral in London.
The Iguvine Tablets are discovered at Gubbio, Italy.

February 14 – Henriette of Mömpelgard, countess of Mömpelgard and regent of Württemberg (b. 1387)
March 9 – Leonardo Bruni, Italian humanist (b. 1374)
April 26 – Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)
May 20 – Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (b. 1380)
May 27 – John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (b. 1404)
October 15 – Niccolò Piccinino, Italian mercenary (b. 1386)
November 10 – King Władysław III of Poland (in battle) (b. 1424)
November 25 – Martin Gouge, French chancellor
date unknown – Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder