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, French chancellor