1344

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1320s 1330s 1340s 1350s 1360s
Years:	1341 1342 1343 1344 1345 1346 1347

1344 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1344 MCCCXLIV
Ab urbe condita	2097
Armenian calendar	793 ԹՎ ՉՂԳ
Assyrian calendar	6094
Balinese saka calendar	1265–1266
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) 4041 or 3834     — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4042 or 3835
Coptic calendar	1060–1061
Discordian calendar	2510
Ethiopian calendar	1336–1337
Hebrew calendar	5104–5105
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1400–1401
- Shaka Samvat	1265–1266
- Kali Yuga	4444–4445
Holocene calendar	11344
Igbo calendar	344–345
Iranian calendar	722–723
Islamic calendar	744–745
Japanese calendar	Kōei 3 (康永３年)
Javanese calendar	1256–1257
Julian calendar	1344 MCCCXLIV
Korean calendar	3677
Minguo calendar	568 before ROC 民前568年
Nanakshahi calendar	−124
Thai solar calendar	1886–1887
Tibetan calendar	阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 1470 or 1089 or 317     — to — 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 1471 or 1090 or 318

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.
• December 6 – Five-year-old Erik Magnusson, the eldest son of king Magnus IV 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in the coins does not match their value of 6 shillings, 3 shillings, and 1 shilling and sixpence, so they have to be withdrawn and mostly melted down by August of this year.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)