Year 1344 was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1344
- King Edward III of England introduces three new gold coins, the florin, leopard, and helm. Unfortunately the amount of gold in the coins does not match their value of 6 shillings, 3 shillings, and 1 shilling and sixpence, so they have to be withdrawn and mostly melted down by August of this year.
- Vesse, the rebel King of Saaremaa Island in Estonia, is hanged.
- Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec civilization, is founded.
- Bablake School was founded in Coventry, England by
- Famine in China.
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