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

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January–December

  • March 26 – The Siege of Algeciras, one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder was used, comes to an end.
  • May 13 – Battle of Pallene: a Christian fleet defeats a Turkish fleet at Pallene, Chalcidice.
  • 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in the coins does not match their value of 6 shillings, 3 shillings, and 1 shilling and sixpence, so they have to be withdrawn and mostly melted down by August of this year.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 of Hereford, Lord High Treasurer of England, Lord Privy Seal, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland
  • January 30 – William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury (b.1301)
  • April 17 – Constantine II, King 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
  • Prince Narinaga, Japanese Shogun (born in 1326, died in either 1337 or 1344, the sources are contradictory).
  • probable – Simone Martini, Sienese painter (b. 1284)

    • References

    1344 Wikipedia
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