1444
Information about 1444
| Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
| Decades: | 1410s 1420s 1430s - 1440s - 1450s 1460s 1470s |
| Years: | 1441 1442 1443 - 1444 - 1445 1446 1447 |
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Events of 1444
- March 2 - The Albanian League is established in Lezha; Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg proclaimed commander of the Albanian resistance
- April 16 - Truce of Tours. Five Year Truce between England and France
- June 15 - Cosimo de' Medici founds the Laurentian Library.
- August - Defeat at the Battle of Jalowaz forces Murad II to abdicate in favor of his son Mehmed II .
- August 26 - Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs in the Old Zürich War. Charles VII of France, seeking to send away troublesome troops made idle by the truce with England, sends his son the Dauphin with a large army into Switzerland to support the claims of Emperor Frederick III. The massively outnumbered Swiss force is destroyed in this battle, but inflict such casualties on the French that they withdraw.
- November 10 - Battle of Varna. The crusading forces of King Ladislas of Poland and Hungary are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II. Ladislas is killed.
- Forces of the Sultan of Egypt fail to take Rhodes from the Knights of Rhodes
- Iguvine Tables discovered at Gubbio, Italy
- Portuguese explorers reach the mouth of the rivers Senegal and Gambia.
- First European slave market for the sale of African slaves, the Mercado de Escravos in Lagos, Portugal.
- A serious fire occurs at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
| Gregorian calendar | 1444 MCDXLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2197 |
| Armenian calendar | 893 ԹՎ ՊՂԳ |
| Bah' calendar | -400 – -399 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1988 |
| Chinese calendar | 4080/4140-8-9 (癸亥年八月初九日) — to — 4081/4141-7-18(甲子年七月十八日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1160 – 1161 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1436 – 1437 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5204 – 5205 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1499 – 1500 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1366 – 1367 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4545 – 4546 |
| Holocene calendar | 11444 |
| Iranian calendar | 822 – 823 |
| Islamic calendar | 848 – 849 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunnan 0 (文安0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2104 (皇紀2104年) |
| Julian calendar | 1489 |
| Korean calendar | 3777 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1987 |
Births
- January 24 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (died 1476)
- March 1 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (died 1510) [Conflicting birth year. See also: 1445]
- March 11 - Donato Bramante, Italian architect (died 1514)
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- John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (died 1476)
- Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian mathematician and astronomer (died 1544)
Deaths
- February 14 - Henriette of Mömpelgard, countess of Mömpelgard and regent of Württemberg (born 1387)
- March 9 - Leonardo Bruni, Italian humanist (born 1374)
- April 26 - Robert Campin, Flemish painter (born 1378)
- May 20 - Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (b. 1380)
- May 27 - John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (born 1404)
- October 15 - Niccolò Piccinino, Italian mercenary (born 1386)
- November 10 - King Wladislaus III of Poland (killed in battle) (born 1424)
- November 25 - Martin Gouge, French chancellor
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1444 in Roman Numerals is MCDXLIV and, excluding the BC years, this year is the first year to use every letter in the Roman numbering system.- Upper Paleolithic
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- The transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age
- Beginning of the Ottoman Empire, early expansion into the Balkans
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- 1402: Ottoman and Timurid Empires fight at the Battle of Ankara resulting in Timur's capture of Bayezid I.
- 1402: The conquest of the Canary Islands signals the beginning of the Spanish Empire.
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- 1500s: Mississippian culture disappears.
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- Adal Sultanate - Badlay ibn Sa'ad ad-Din, Sultan (died 1445)
- Ethiopia - Zara Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (1434-1468)
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- Aztec Empire - Moctezuma I, Aztec Emperor (1440 - 1469)
- Inca Empire
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March 2 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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- 986 - Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
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The League of Prizren (Albanian: Lidhja e Prizrenit) was an Albanian political organization founded on June 10, 1878 in Prizren, Kosovo.
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George Kastrioti Skenderbeu (1403 - 17 January 1468) (Albanian: Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeg widely known as Skanderbeg, Turkish İskender Bey
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