44

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	10s  20s  30s  – 40s –  50s  60s  70s
Years:	41 42 43 – 44 – 45 46 47

44 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

44 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	44 XLIV
Ab urbe condita	797
Assyrian calendar	4794
Bengali calendar	−549
Berber calendar	994
Buddhist calendar	588
Burmese calendar	−594
Byzantine calendar	5552–5553
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2740 or 2680     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2741 or 2681
Coptic calendar	−240 – −239
Discordian calendar	1210
Ethiopian calendar	36–37
Hebrew calendar	3804–3805
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	100–101
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3145–3146
Holocene calendar	10044
Iranian calendar	578 BP – 577 BP
Islamic calendar	596 BH – 595 BH
Julian calendar	44 XLIV
Korean calendar	2377
Minguo calendar	1868 before ROC 民前1868年
Seleucid era	355/356 AG
Thai solar calendar	586–587

Year 44 (XLIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Crispus and Taurus (or, less frequently, year 797 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 44 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Gaius Sallustius Crispus Passienus and Titus Statilius Taurus become Roman consuls.
• The emperor Claudius returns from his British campaign in triumph, the southeast part of Britannia now held by the Roman Empire, but the war will rage for another decade and a half.
• Boudicca marries Prasutagus, king of the British Celtic tribe the Iceni.
• Mauretania becomes a Roman province.
• The Isle of Rhodes returns to the Roman Empire.
• Judaea is controlled by Roman governors.
• Cuspius Fadus, governor of Judea (44–46), suppress the revolt of Theudas who is decapitated.

By topic

Arts and sciences

• Pomponius Mela writes De situ orbis, a geography of the Earth.

Births

• Fictional Jacob (Lost) and fictional Man in Black (Lost) were born on an island in the South Pacific Ocean.

Deaths

• James the Great, the son of Zebedee, martyrdom
• Herod Agrippa of Judea (b. 10 BC)
• Claudia Julia, executed niece of Claudius and Messalina (43–45)
• Wu Han, general of Han Dynasty

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