Year 1353 (MCCCLIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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January–December

• March 3 Bern signs an alliance with the Old Swiss Confederacy.

• August 27 War of the Straits and Sardinian–Aragonese war Battle of Alghero: The allied Aragonese and Venetian fleets crush the Genoese fleet, most of which is captured.

Date unknown

• The Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta makes the first recorded visit to Timbuktu and Kabara, when returning from a stay in the capital of the Mali Empire.

• The Decameron is finished by Giovanni Boccaccio.

• The Black Death (1331) subsides.

• The Lao kingdom of Lan Xang is founded by Fa Ngum.</onlyinclude>

Births

• March Margaret I of Denmark, queen of Haakon VI of Norway (d. 1412)

• July 15 Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)

date unknown

• Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1414)

• Helvis of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, queen consort of Armenia and Cyprus (d. 1421)

• John Purvey, English scholar and Bible translator (d. 1428)

Deaths

• February 2 Anne of Bavaria, queen consort of Bohemia (b. 1329)

• March 6 Roger Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Ruthyn

• March 11 Theognostus, metropolitan of Kiev and Moscow

• April 27 Simeon of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow and Vladimir

• October 4 Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1306)

• November or December Togha Temür, claimant to the throne of the Mongol Il-Khanate in Persia (assassinated)

date unknown

• Matilda, daughter of King Robert the Bruce of Scotland

• Elisabeth of Austria, Duchess of Lorraine, regent of Lorraine

• Sir Ulick Burke, Irish nobleman

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