There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 1544 BC was a common year starting on a Saturday, just like 1636 BC, 1630 BC, 1619 BC, 1608 BC, 1602 BC, 1591 BC, 1580 BC, 1574 BC, 1563 BC, 1552 BC in the century before it and 1535 BC, 1524 BC, 1518 BC, 1507 BC, 1496 BC, 1490 BC, 1479 BC, 1468 BC, 1462 BC, 1451 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.