1353

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

Events

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January&ndash;December

• March 3 &ndash; Bern signs an alliance with the Old Swiss Confederacy.
• August 27 &ndash; War of the Straits and Sardinian–Aragonese war &ndash; 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 &ndash; Margaret I of Denmark, queen of Haakon VI of Norway (d. 1412)
• July 15 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Anne of Bavaria, queen consort of Bohemia (b. 1329)
• March 6 &ndash; Roger Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Ruthyn
• March 11 &ndash; Theognostus, metropolitan of Kiev and Moscow
• April 27 &ndash; Simeon of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow and Vladimir
• October 4 &ndash; Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1306)
• November or December &ndash; 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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