1344

'Years:' 1341 1342 1343 - 1344 - 1345 1346 1347

'Decades:' 1310s 1320s 1330s - '1340s' - 1350s 1360s 1370s

'Centuries:' 13th century - '14th century' - 15th century

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ English king Edward III introduces three new gold coins, the florin. leopard, and helm. Unfortunately the amount of gold in the coins does not match their value of six shillings, three shillings, and one shilling and sixpence, so they have to be withdrawn and mostly melted down by August of this year.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, was hanged.

Births

★ Meinhard III, Count of Tyrol

★ Parameswara, Malay Srivijayan prince (died 1424)

Deaths

★ Constantine IV of Armenia

★ Gersonides, French rabbi and mathematician (born 1288)

★ Jaghmini, Persian physician

★ Simone Martini, Sienese painter (born 1284)

★ William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury (born 1301)

★ Vesse, the rebel King of Saaremaa