1944

1944 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1944 ; MCMXLIV
Ab urbe condita	2697
Armenian calendar	1393 ; ?? ????
Assyrian calendar	6694
Baha'i calendar	100?101
Balinese saka calendar	1865?1866
Bengali calendar	1351
Berber calendar	2894
British Regnal year	8 Geo. 6 ? 9 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar	2488
Burmese calendar	1306
Byzantine calendar	7452?7453
Chinese calendar	癸未年 (Water Goat ) ; 4640 or 4580 ; ? to ? ; 甲申年 (Wood Monkey ) ; 4641 or 4581
Coptic calendar	1660?1661
Discordian calendar	3110
Ethiopian calendar	1936?1937
Hebrew calendar	5704?5705
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2000?2001
- Shaka Samvat	1865?1866
- Kali Yuga	5044?5045
Holocene calendar	11944
Igbo calendar	944?945
Iranian calendar	1322?1323
Islamic calendar	1363?1364
Japanese calendar	Sh?wa 19 ; (昭和１９年)
Javanese calendar	1874?1875
Juche calendar	33
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4277
Minguo calendar	ROC 33 ; 民國33年
Nanakshahi calendar	476
Thai solar calendar	2487
Tibetan calendar	?水羊年 ; (female Water- Goat ) ; 2070 or 1689 or 917 ; ? to ? ; ?木?年 ; (male Wood- Monkey ) ; 2071 or 1690 or 918

Millennium :	2nd millennium
Centuries :	19th century ? 20th century ? 21st century
Decades :	1910s 1920s 1930s ? 1940s ? 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years :	1941 1942 1943 ? 1944 ? 1945 1946 1947

1944 ( MCMXLIV ) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar , the 1944th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 944th year of the 2nd millennium , the 44th year of the 20th century , and the 5th year of the 1940s decade.

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January 4 ? The Battle of Monte Cassino begins.
January 5 ? Murder of Danish playwright Kaj Munk
January 17 ? British forces, in Italy , cross the Garigliano River .
January 17 ? Meat Rationing ends in Australia
January 20 ? The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin ; the U.S. Army 36th Infantry Division , in Italy, attempts to cross the Rapido River .
January 22 ? Allies begin Operation Shingle , the assault on Anzio , Italy . The U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division stand their ground at Anzio against violent assaults for 4 months.
January 27 ? The two year Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
January 29 ? The Battle of Cisterna takes place.
January 30 ? United States troops invade Majuro, Marshall Islands .
January 31 ? American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese -held Marshall Islands .

7 January 1944 ? Lou Henry Hoover , First Lady of the United States
21 July 1944 ? Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , German army officer
14 October 1944 ? Erwin Rommel , German army officer
26 October 1944 Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom Princess Henry of Battenberg youngest daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe - Coburg and Gotha