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