1344 (MCCCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1344th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 344th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 14th century, and the 5th year of the 1340s decade. As of the start of 1344, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 13th century14th century15th century
Decades: 1310s  1320s  1330s  – 1340s –  1350s  1360s  1370s
Years: 1341 1342 134313441345 1346 1347
1344 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1344
MCCCXLIV
Ab urbe condita2097
Armenian calendar793
ԹՎ ՉՂԳ
Assyrian calendar6094
Balinese saka calendar1265–1266
Bengali calendar751
Berber calendar2294
English Regnal year17 Edw. 3 – 18 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar1888
Burmese calendar706
Byzantine calendar6852–6853
Chinese calendar癸未(Water Goat)
4040 or 3980
    — to —
甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
4041 or 3981
Coptic calendar1060–1061
Discordian calendar2510
Ethiopian calendar1336–1337
Hebrew calendar5104–5105
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1400–1401
 - Shaka Samvat1265–1266
 - Kali Yuga4444–4445
Holocene calendar11344
Igbo calendar344–345
Iranian calendar722–723
Islamic calendar744–745
Japanese calendarKōei 3
(康永3年)
Javanese calendar1256–1257
Julian calendar1344
MCCCXLIV
Korean calendar3677
Minguo calendar568 before ROC
民前568年
Nanakshahi calendar−124
Thai solar calendar1886–1887
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

Events

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  • English king Edward III creates three new gold coins, the florin. leopard, and helm. Unfortunately the amount of gold in the coins is different from their worth of six shillings, three shillings, one shilling, and sixpence. Because of this, they had to be taken back and many were melted down by August.

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Deaths

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