1044
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This article is about the year 1044.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
| Decades: | 1010s 1020s 1030s – 1040s – 1050s 1060s 1070s |
| Years: | 1041 1042 1043 – 1044 – 1045 1046 1047 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1044 MXLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1797 |
| Armenian calendar | 493 ԹՎ ՆՂԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5794 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -800–-799 |
| Bengali calendar | 451 |
| Berber calendar | 1994 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1588 |
| Burmese calendar | 406 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6552–6553 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸未年十一月廿八日 (3680/3740-11-28) — to —
甲申年十二月初十日(3681/3741-12-10) |
| Coptic calendar | 760–761 |
| 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 |
| Iranian calendar | 422–423 |
| Islamic calendar | 435–436 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3377 |
| Minguo calendar | 868 before ROC 民前868年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 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.
[edit] Events
- King Anawrahta seizes the throne of Pagan, Myanmar.
- Benedict IX abdicates as pope. Sylvester III succeeds him.
- 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.
[edit] Births
- Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, known as El Cid (d. 1099)
