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1444 ( MCDXLIV) var ett skottår som började en onsdag i den julianska kalendern . Händelser. Mars. 1 mars – Skanderbeg blir befälhavare för ett albanskt uppror mot sultanen. April. 16 april – Vapenstilleståndet i Tours sluts, vilket innebär fem års fred i hundraårskriget. November.
8 000 – 20 000. Slaget vid Varna, även kallat korståget vid Varna eller det antiturkiska korståget, var ett av de största slagen under 1400-talet och ett av de mest lyckosamma för osmanerna. I detta slag besegrade Osmanska riket under sultan Murad II de polsk - ungerska kristna arméerna.
- Avgörande osmansk seger
1444 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1444th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 444th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 15th century, and the 5th year of the 1440s decade.
The Battle of Varna took place on 10 November 1444 near Varna in today eastern Bulgaria.The Ottoman army under Sultan Murad II (who did not actually rule the sultanate at the time) defeated the Crusaders commanded by King Władysław III of Poland and Hungary, John Hunyadi (acting as commander of the combined Christian forces) and Mircea II of Wallachia.
The Crusade of Varna was an unsuccessful military campaign mounted by several European leaders to check the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Central Europe, specifically the Balkans between 1443 and 1444.
The Treaty of Tours was an attempted peace agreement between Henry VI of England and Charles VII of France, concluded by their envoys on 28 May 1444 in the closing years of the Hundred Years' War. The terms stipulated the marriage of Charles VII's niece, Margaret of Anjou , to Henry VI, and the creation of a truce of two years ...
Battle of Varna, Turkish victory over a largely Hungarian force on November 10, 1444, in what is now Bulgaria, ending the European powers’ efforts to save Constantinople (now Istanbul) from Turkish conquest and enabling the Ottoman Empire to confirm and expand its control over the Balkans. The Christian retaliation against the advance of the ...
