1044
year
1044 (MXLIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1044th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 44th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 11th century, and the 5th year of the 1040s decade. As of the start of 1044, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
| Decades: | 1010s 1020s 1030s – 1040s – 1050s 1060s 1070s |
| Years: | 1041 1042 1043 – 1044 – 1045 1046 1047 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1044 MXLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1797 |
| Armenian calendar | 493 ԹՎ ՆՂԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5794 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 965–966 |
| Bengali calendar | 451 |
| Berber calendar | 1994 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1588 |
| Burmese calendar | 406 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6552–6553 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸未年 (Water Goat) 3740 or 3680 — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3741 or 3681 |
| Coptic calendar | 760–761 |
| Discordian calendar | 2210 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1036–1037 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4804–4805 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1100–1101 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 965–966 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4144–4145 |
| Holocene calendar | 11044 |
| Igbo calendar | 44–45 |
| Iranian calendar | 422–423 |
| Islamic calendar | 435–436 |
| Japanese calendar | Chōkyū 5 / Kantoku 1 (寛徳元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 947–948 |
| Julian calendar | 1044 MXLIV |
| Korean calendar | 3377 |
| Minguo calendar | 868 before ROC 民前868年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −424 |
| Seleucid era | 1355/1356 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1586–1587 |
| 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 |
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Events
change- King Anawrahta takes over the throne of Pagan, Myanmar.
- Benedict IX gives up his role as pope. Sylvester III becomes the new pope after him.
- The Chinese military essay of the Wujing Zongyao is written and built 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 mariners compass. Although making clear the importance of many weapons, it reserves high respect for the crossbow and ability of crossbowmen to eliminate charging units of nomadic cavalrymen.
Births
change- Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, known as El Cid (d. 1099)
- Cristina Atheling, daughter of Edward the Exile (died 1123)