What is 1444?
{{Year nav|1444}} {{Year in various calendars|1444}} {{Year article header|1444}} == 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]], Fre