1444

1444 (MCDXLIV) was a leap year beginning on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. It is the first of the eight years of the Common Era and of the anno Domini that uses all the letters of the Roman numeral system once each.

Events

• 26 August - Batalla del Birs (Switzerland)
• October 8 - Altamirano City is founded, in what is today the Tarasca region of Mexico.
• 10 November - Ottoman Sultan Murad II defeats a crusader coalition of Eastern Europe in the Battle of Varna.
• Sultan Murad II abdicates for his son Mehmed II.

Art and literature

• Juan de Mena: Labyrinth of Fortune.

Births

• January 28 - Francisco de Pazzi
• Donato d'Angelo Bramante
• December 15 was born in the city of Carmona, Maese Rodrigo, founder of the University of Seville.

Deaths

• March 9 - Leonardo Bruni, Italian humanist (born 1374)
• April 26 - Robert Campin, flamenco painter (born 1378)
• May 20 - Saint Bernard of Siena, an Italian Franciscan missionary (born 1380)
• 10 November - Vladislao III Jagellón, King of Poland and Hungary (born 1424)