1353

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

Events

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 subsides.
The Lao kingdom of Lan Xang is founded by Fa Ngum.
Births
March - Margaret I of Denmark, queen of Haakon VI of Norway
July 15 - Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince
date unknown
* Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury
* Helvis of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, queen consort of Armenia and Cyprus
* John Purvey, English scholar and Bible translator
Deaths
February 2 - Anne of Bavaria, queen consort of Bohemia
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
November or December - Togha Temür, claimant to the throne of the Mongol Il-Khanate in Persia
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