1444

1444 (MCDXLIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1444th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 444th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 15th century, and the 5th year of the 1440s decade. As of the start of 1444, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

1444 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1444 MCDXLIV
Ab urbe condita	2197
Armenian calendar	893 ԹՎ ՊՂԳ
Assyrian calendar	6194
Balinese saka calendar	1365–1366
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 (Water Pig) 4140 or 4080     — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4141 or 4081
Coptic calendar	1160–1161
Discordian calendar	2610
Ethiopian calendar	1436–1437
Hebrew calendar	5204–5205
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1500–1501
- Shaka Samvat	1365–1366
- Kali Yuga	4544–4545
Holocene calendar	11444
Igbo calendar	444–445
Iranian calendar	822–823
Islamic calendar	847–848
Japanese calendar	Kakitsu 4 / Bun'an 1 (文安元年)
Javanese calendar	1359–1360
Julian calendar	1444 MCDXLIV
Korean calendar	3777
Minguo calendar	468 before ROC 民前468年
Nanakshahi calendar	−24
Thai solar calendar	1986–1987
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Water-Boar) 1570 or 1189 or 417     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Rat) 1571 or 1190 or 418

Events

• March 2 – The Albanian League started in Lezha; Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg becomes leader of the Albanian resistance
• April 16 – Truce of Tours begins between England and France
• June 15 – Cosimo de' Medici starts the Laurentian Library.
• August 26 – Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs in the Old Zürich War.
• August – Murad II abdicates because of defeat at the Battle of Jalowaz.
• November 10 – Battle of Varna. King Ladislas of Poland and Hungary is killed.
• The Sultan of Egypt fails to take Rhodes from the Knights of Rhodes
• The Iguvine Tables are discovered at Gubbio, Italy
• Portuguese explorers reach the mouth of the Senegal river and the Gambia river.
• The Mercado de Escravos, the first European slave market for selling African Slaves, opens in Lagos, Portugal.
• A fire occurs at St Paul's Cathedral in London.

Births

• January 24 – Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Italian duke (died 1476)
• March 1 – Sandro Botticelli, Italian artist (died 1510) (born 1444 or 1445)
• March 11 – Donato Bramante, Italian architect (died 1514)
• John de Mowbray, English duke (died 1476)
• Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian mathematician and astronomer (died 1544)

Deaths

• February 14 – Henriette of Mömpelgard,countess (born 1387)
• March 9 – Leonardo Bruni, Italian humanist (born 1374)
• April 26 – Robert Campin, Flemish artist (born 1378)
• May 20 – Bernardino of Siena, Italian saint and missionary (born 1380)
• May 27 – John Beaufort, English duke and military leader (born 1404)
• October 15 – Niccolò Piccinino, Italian mercenary (born 1386)
• November 10 – King Wladislaus III, king of Poland (born 1424)
• November 25 – Martin Gouge, French chancellor