Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1310s  1320s  1330s  – 1340s –  1350s  1360s  1370s
Years:	1341 1342 1343 – 1344 – 1345 1346 1347

1344 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

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Year 1344 (MCCCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1344

• 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in the coins does not match their value of 6 shillings, 3 shillings, and 1 shilling and sixpence, so they have to be withdrawn and mostly melted down by August of this year.
• Vesse, the rebel King of Saaremaa Island in Estonia, is hanged.
• Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec civilization, is founded.
• Bablake School was founded in Coventry, England by Queen Isabella.
• The fall of Bardi and Peruzzi House. Compagnia dei Bardi
• Famine in China.

1344 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1344 MCCCXLIV
Ab urbe condita	2097
Armenian calendar	793 ԹՎ ՉՂԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-500 – -499
Berber calendar	2294
Buddhist calendar	1888
Burmese calendar	706
Byzantine calendar	6852 – 6853
Chinese calendar	癸未年十二月十五日 (3980/4040-12-15) — to — 甲申年十一月廿六日 (3981/4041-11-26)
Coptic calendar	1060 – 1061
Ethiopian calendar	1336 – 1337
Hebrew calendar	5104 – 5105
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1399 – 1400
- Shaka Samvat	1266 – 1267
- Kali Yuga	4445 – 4446
Holocene calendar	11344
Iranian calendar	722 – 723
Islamic calendar	744 – 745
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3677
Thai solar calendar	1887
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[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)