1444 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1444?
- March 2, 1444 – Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë.
- June 29, 1444 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
- August 26, 1444 – Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: A vastly outnumbered force of Swiss Confederates is defeated by the Dauphin Louis (future Louis XI of France) and his army of ‘Armagnacs’near Basel.
- November 10, 1444 – Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.
Who Were Born In The Year 1444?
- January 24, 1444 – Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1476)
- June 14, 1444 – Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1544)
Who Died In The Year 1444?
- April 26, 1444 – Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)
- May 20, 1444 – Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (b. 1380)
- May 27, 1444 – John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (b. 1404)
- November 10, 1444 – King Władysław III of Poland (b. 1424)
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