1444

This article is about the year 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
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1444 in poetry

1444 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1444 MCDXLIV
Ab urbe condita	2197
Armenian calendar	893 ԹՎ ՊՂԳ
Assyrian calendar	6194
Bahá'í calendar	-400–-399
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	癸亥年十二月十二日 (4080/4140-12-12) — to — 甲子年十一月廿二日 (4081/4141-11-22)
Coptic calendar	1160–1161
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
Iranian calendar	822–823
Islamic calendar	847–848
Japanese calendar	Kakitsu 4Bunnan 1 (文安元年)
Korean calendar	3777
Minguo calendar	468 before ROC 民前468年
Thai solar calendar	1987

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

Events

January–December

• March 2 – The Albanian League is established in Lezha; George Kastrioti Skanderbeg is proclaimed commander of the Albanian resistance.
• April 16 – The Truce of Tours is signed between England and France (it lasts 5 years).
• June 15 – Cosimo de' Medici founds the Laurentian Library.
• June 29 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman army at the battle of Torvioll.
• August 15 – Treaty of Szeged between Ottoman (Turkish) Empire and Kingdom of Hungary.
• August – After making peace with Karamanids, Murad II abdicated in favor of his son Mehmed II.
• August 26 – Old Zürich 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 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.

Date unknown

• Forces of the Sultan of Egypt fail to take Rhodes from the Knights of Rhodes.
• The Iguvine Tables are discovered at Gubbio, Italy.
• Portuguese explorers reach the mouth of the rivers Senegal and Gambia.
• The first European slave market for the sale of African slaves, the Mercado de Escravos, opens in Lagos, Portugal.
• Portuguese caravel lands 235 slaves at Algarve, Portugal.
• A serious fire occurs at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
• Constantine XI, as despotate of the Morea, invades the Latin Duchy of Athens and forces them to pay tribute, and return Thebes to Byzantium.

Births

• January 24 – Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1476)
• March 11 – Donato Bramante, Italian architect (d. 1514)
• June 14 – Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian Astronomer-mathematician (d. 1544)
• date unknown – John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (d. 1476)

Deaths

• 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