1544

1544 (MDXLIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1544th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 544th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 16th century, and the 5th year of the 1540s decade. As of the start of 1544, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

1544 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1544 MDXLIV
Ab urbe condita	2297
Armenian calendar	993 ԹՎ ՋՂԳ
Assyrian calendar	6294
Balinese saka calendar	1465–1466
Bengali calendar	951
Berber calendar	2494
English Regnal year	35 Hen. 8 – 36 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2088
Burmese calendar	906
Byzantine calendar	7052–7053
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4240 or 4180     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4241 or 4181
Coptic calendar	1260–1261
Discordian calendar	2710
Ethiopian calendar	1536–1537
Hebrew calendar	5304–5305
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1600–1601
- Shaka Samvat	1465–1466
- Kali Yuga	4644–4645
Holocene calendar	11544
Igbo calendar	544–545
Iranian calendar	922–923
Islamic calendar	950–951
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 13 (天文１３年)
Javanese calendar	1462–1463
Julian calendar	1544 MDXLIV
Korean calendar	3877
Minguo calendar	368 before ROC 民前368年
Nanakshahi calendar	76
Thai solar calendar	2086–2087
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Water-Hare) 1670 or 1289 or 517     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dragon) 1671 or 1290 or 518

Births

• January 19 – King Francis II of France (d. December 5, 1560)