* 1044 – The Battle of Ménfő between troops led by Emperor Henry III and Magyar forces led by King Samuel takes place.

* Matilda of Frisia ( died 1044 ), Queen of the Franks, wife of Henry I, King of the Franks

The Holy Roman Emperor Henry III authorised him to succeed his father as duke of Upper Lorraine in 1044, but refused him the ducal title in Lower Lorraine, for he feared the power of a united duchy.

In September 1044 the opposition forced him out of the city again and elected John, Bishop of Sabina, as Pope Sylvester III.

* the first lasting from his election to his expulsion in favour of Sylvester III ( October 1032 – September 1044 )

John, Bishop of Sabina, had been hailed as Pope Sylvester III by the faction of the nobility that had driven Benedict IX from Rome in 1044, and had then installed him in his place.

Finally, the victory gained by Geoffrey Martel ( 21 June 1040 – 14 November 1060 ), the son and successor of Fulk, over Theobald III, count of Blois, at Nouy ( 21 August 1044 ), assured to the Angevins the possession of the countship of Touraine.

On March 23, 1937, Faustina wrote in her diary ( Notebook III, item 1044 ) that she had a vision that the feast of Divine Mercy would be celebrated in her local chapel, and would be attended by large crowds, and that the same celebration would be held in Rome attended by the Pope.

The city's Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom ( 1044 – 66 ), though completely rebuilt over the years, remains a symbol of this independent-mindedness, rivaling churches of the same name in Novgorod and Kiev, referring to the original Hagia Sophia in Constantinople ( and hence to claims of imperial prestige, authority and sovereignty ).

Signa Militaria ", by James Yates, in the public domain A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities ( pp. 1044 – 1046 )

From 1044 to 1287, Bagan was the capital as well as the political, economic and cultural nerve center of the Pagan Empire.

They went on to establish the Pagan Empire ( 1044 – 1287 ), the first ever unification of Irrawaddy valley and its periphery.

Since the institution of the official 37 Nats was founded by King Anawrahta ( 1044 – 1077 ) of Bagan, albeit with later alterations, it has been argued that this may be interpreted as a process of Burmanisation and establishment of Bamar supremacy in the Irrawaddy valley after the unification of the country and founding of the First Burmese Empire was achieved by the king.

In 1044 the Tangut Empire signed a treaty with the Song dynasty resulting in the nominal acknowledgment of Song sovereignty by the Tangut and the payment of tribute by the Song.

He defeats the Mearan separatists in 1027, but is forced to return to Mearan in 1044 to put down another attempt at Mearan independence.

* Samuel Aba of Hungary Aba-Árpád Dynasty ( 1038 – 1044 )

Géza I () ( c. 1044 – 25 April 1077 ) was King of Hungary from 1074 until his death.

Peter Orseolo (; c. 1010-1015 – 1046 or 30 August 1059 ), called the Venetian in Hungarian, was King of Hungary from 1038 to 1041 and from 1044 to 1046.

In June 1044, the imperial troops attacked Hungary again and won a decisive victory over king Samuel Aba on 5 July 1044 in the Battle of Ménfő.

* King Géza I of Hungary ( c. 1044 – 25 April 1077 )

The handheld pistol-and-trigger crossbow was invented in China in the 4th century BC ; it was written by the Song Dynasty scholars Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, and Yang Weide in their book Wujing Zongyao ( 1044 AD ) that massed missile fire by crossbowmen was the most effective defense against enemy cavalry charges.

* 1044: the Chinese Wujing Zongyao, written by Zeng Gongliang and Yang Weide, is the first book to describe gunpowder formulas ; it also described their use in warfare, such as blackpowder-impregnated fuses for flamethrowers.

The First Fleet is the name given to the eleven ships that sailed from Great Britain on 13 May 1787 ( consisting of 10 civil officers, 212 Marines, including officers, additional 28 wives and 17 children of the marines, 81 free persons, 504 male convicts and 192 female convicts ; total free persons: 348, prisoners: 696 ; total 1044 ), to establish the first European colony in Australia, in the region which Captain Cook had named New South Wales.

Situated in the far northeastern corner of Linn County on the Jefferson County line, about east of Corvallis, Mount Jefferson is in a rugged wilderness and is thus one of the hardest volcanoes to reach in the Cascades ; though USFS Road 1044 does come within of the summit.

There are four enclosures at Dăbâca, each one associated with earthwork fortifications ; the excavators dated the third enclosure to the 9th or 10th century, while also claiming that it post-dated the second enclosure-the only defense work to have produced clearly datable artifacts, namely a silver penny of King Peter ( 1038 – 1041 and 1044 – 1046 ).

He is usually said to have accompanied his elder brothers William and Drogo to the Mezzogiorno circa 1035 on the basis of Goffredo Malaterra ; however, he may have arrived later, in 1044, during the reign of his elder brother William.

Many monastic artists reached senior positions ; Spearhafoc's career in metalwork was paralleled in less sensational fashion by his contemporary Mannig, Abbot of Evesham ( Abbot 1044 – 58, d. 1066 ), and at the end of the previous century Saint Dunstan had been a very successful Archbishop of Canterbury.

Peter Rex, in his 2005 biography of Hereward, points out that the campaigns he is reported to have fought in the neighbourhood of Flanders seem to have begun around 1063, and suggests that Hereward in fact went to Flanders-meaning that, if he was 18 at the time of his exile, he was born in 1044 / 5.

When Pope Benedict IX was driven from Rome in September 1044, John, bishop of Sabina, was elected after fierce and protracted infighting.

King Anawrahta of Bagan ( 1044 – 1077 ) designated an official pantheon of 37 Nats, after he had failed to enforce a ban on nat worship.

* Abagelard, born after 1044 and died in Greece in 1081

After the battle of Nouy on 21 August 1044 Count Theobald I of Blois-Chartres ( 1039 – 89 ) was taken prisoner by Geoffrey, to whom he surrendered Tours with Chinon and Langeais, excluding, however, the monastery of Marmoutier.

In 1044, Edward granted him lands at Dawlish in Devon.

He was a good friend and advisor to the king of England, Edward the Confessor, who appointed him Bishop of London in 1044, and then archbishop in 1051.

Historically verifiable Burmese history begins with his accession to the Pagan throne in 1044.

He took the throne of Polotsk in 1044 upon his father's death, and although since 1093 he was the senior member of the Rurik Dynasty for his generation, since his father had not been prince in Kiev, Vseslav was excluded ( izgoi ) from the grand princely succession.

Lower and Upper Lorraine were once again briefly reunited under Gothelo I from 1033 to 1044.

Mail orders for the season and orders for single tickets at $2, may be addressed to the society, 1044 Chestnut Street, San Francisco 9.

The Chinese " Wu Ching Tsung Yao " ( Complete Essentials from the Military Classics ), written by Tseng Kung-Liang between 1040 – 1044, provides encyclopedia references to a variety of mixtures which included petrochemicals, as well as garlic and honey.

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* German A. Goncharov, " American and Soviet H-bomb development programmes: historical background ," Physics-Uspekhi 39: 10 ( 1996 ): 1033 – 1044.

The average rate for a one room apartment was 597. 46 CHF ( US $ 480, £ 270, € 380 ), a two room apartment was about 792. 33 CHF ( US $ 630, £ 360, € 510 ), a three room apartment was about 1044. 64 CHF ( US $ 840, £ 470, € 670 ) and a six or more room apartment cost an average of 2024. 55 CHF ( US $ 1620, £ 910, € 1300 ).

* 1044 – The Wujing Zongyao military manuscript is completed by Chinese scholars Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, and Yang Weide.

* 1044 BC: On the death of Smendes I, king of Egypt, he is succeeded by two co-regents, Psusennes I and Neferkare Amenemnisu.

The earliest surviving recipes for gunpowder can be found in the Chinese military treatise Wujing zongyao of 1044 AD, which contains three: two for use in incendiary bombs to be thrown by siege engines and one intended as fuel for poison smoke bombs.

Year 1044 ( MXLIV ) was a leap year starting on Sunday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

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