There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 1344 BC was a common year starting on a Thursday, just like 1436 BC, 1430 BC, 1419 BC, 1408 BC, 1402 BC, 1391 BC, 1380 BC, 1374 BC, 1363 BC, 1352 BC in the century before it and 1335 BC, 1324 BC, 1318 BC, 1307 BC, 1296 BC, 1290 BC, 1279 BC, 1268 BC, 1262 BC, 1251 BC in the next.
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icons indicate the phases of the moon and appear only for dates in the Gregorian calendar, i.e. after 14 October 1582. The Chinese calendar is available only from 1645 to 2644, the first millenium since the last reform. The coloured columns mark the Sundays, the last day of the week per standard ISO-8601.
The normal calendar page for the current /year?2013 contains an introduction to the intriguing history of the year as we know it. The Calendar Converter has more detail. The so called Perpetual Calendar uses a trick from before the age of computers to find the weekday for any Gregorian date. Also see an overview of all historical events in the last six thousand years.