1044

Year 1044 (MXLIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1044 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1044
MXLIV
Ab urbe condita1797
Armenian calendar493
ԹՎ ՆՂԳ
Assyrian calendar5794
Balinese saka calendar965–966
Bengali calendar451
Berber calendar1994
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar1588
Burmese calendar406
Byzantine calendar6552–6553
Chinese calendar癸未年 (Water Goat)
3740 or 3680
     to 
甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
3741 or 3681
Coptic calendar760–761
Discordian calendar2210
Ethiopian calendar1036–1037
Hebrew calendar4804–4805
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1100–1101
 - Shaka Samvat965–966
 - Kali Yuga4144–4145
Holocene calendar11044
Igbo calendar44–45
Iranian calendar422–423
Islamic calendar435–436
Japanese calendarChōkyū 5 / Kantoku 1
(寛徳元年)
Javanese calendar947–948
Julian calendar1044
MXLIV
Korean calendar3377
Minguo calendar868 before ROC
民前868年
Nanakshahi calendar−424
Seleucid era1355/1356 AG
Thai solar calendar1586–1587
Tibetan calendar阴水羊年
(female Water-Goat)
1170 or 789 or 17
     to 
阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
1171 or 790 or 18
Battle of Ménfő, in the corner (left) the depiction of the killing of Samuel Aba.

Events

Europe

  • July 6 Battle of Ménfő: German troops, under King Henry III (the Black), defeat the Hungarian army, led by King Samuel Aba, who flees the field, but is captured and killed. Peter Orseolo (called the Venetian) becomes (for the second time) king of Hungary, and a vassal of the Holy Roman Empire.
  • Summer Geoffrey II (the Hammer), count of Anjou, captures the city of Tours, and takes control of the county of Touraine.

Asia

  • The Chinese military treatise of the Wujing Zongyao is written and compiled by scholars Zeng Gongliang (曾公亮), Ding Du (丁度), and Yang Weide (楊惟德), during the Song Dynasty. It is the first book in history to include formulas for gunpowder, and its use for various bombs (thrown by sling or trebuchet catapult). It also describes the double-piston pump flamethrower and a thermoremanence compass, a few decades before Shen Kuo wrote of the first known magnetic mariner's compass. Although emphasizing the importance of many weapons, it reserves high respect for the crossbow, and the ability of crossbowmen to fell charging units of nomadic cavalrymen.
  • August 11 King Anawrahta seizes the throne of the Pagan Empire at Bagan in Burma (modern Myanmar).

Religion

  • September A second Roman uprising forces Pope Benedict IX out of Rome. He is succeeded by the new elected (anti)-Pope Sylvester III (until 1045).

Births

  • Abelard of Hauteville, Italo-Norman nobleman (d. 1081)
  • Trahaearn ap Caradog, king of Gwynedd (d. 1081)
  • Władysław I Herman, duke of Poland (d. 1102)

Deaths

  • January 14 Adelaide I, abbess of Quedlinburg
  • April 19 Gothelo I (or Gozelo), duke of Lorraine
  • July 6 Samuel Aba, palatine and king of Hungary
  • August 11 Sokkate, king of the Pagan Empire (b. 1001)
  • November 14 Thietmar of Hildesheim, German bishop
  • Abu'l-Husayn al-Basri, Mu'tazilite faqih and theologian
  • Rajendra Chola I, emperor of the Chola Dynasty
  • Sharif al-Murtaza, Buyid Shia scholar (b. 965)
  • Zhao Yuanyan, prince of the Song Dynasty (b. 985)

References

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