1044

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

1044 in other calendars

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

Battle of Ménfő, in the corner (left) the depiction of the killing of Samuel Aba.

Events

• 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

• Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, known as El Cid (d. 1099)
• Cristina Atheling, daughter of Edward the Exile (died 1123)

Deaths

• Gothelo I, Duke of Lotharingia