1444 Calendar
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Historical Event(s)
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 On ?
January 24, 1444
– Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1476)
June 14, 1444
– Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1544)