1944 in Albania

Incumbents

• President: Mehdi Frashëri, Chairman of the High Council, Omer Nishani, Chairman of the Presidium
• Prime Minister: Rexhep Bej Mitrovica, Fiqri Dine, Ibrahim Biçakçiu, Enver Hoxha

Events

• The National Liberation Movement, supplied with British weapons, gained control of southern Albania.

• The Communists met to organize an Albanian government and appointed Hoxha chairman of the executive committee and supreme commander of the National Liberation Movement.

• Communists establish provisional government with Hoxha as Prime Minister.

• The Communists entered the capital in the wake of a German withdrawal.

• Communist provisional government adopts laws allowing state regulation of commercial enterprises, foreign and domestic trade.

Births

• 12 January - Fatos Kongoli, writer
• 17 August - Rexhep Meidani, politician, former President of Albania
• 6 September - Skënder Hyka, footballer
• 15 October - Sali Berisha, cardiologist and politician, former President and Prime minister of Albania

Deaths

• 23 January - Rauf Fico, diplomat and politician
• February - Fuat Dibra, politician
• 1 February - Vasil Shanto, one of the founders of the Albanian Communist Party
• 5 March - Ismail Ndroqi, politician and philosopher
• 7 August - Skënder Muço, lawyer and leader of Balli Kombëtar
• September - Llazar Fundo, communist, later social-democratic journalist and writer