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

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January–December

  • March 3 – Bern signs an alliance with the Swiss Confederation.

    • 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.

    • 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. 1413)
  • John Purvey, English scholar and Bible translator (d. 1428)

    • Deaths

  • 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
  • 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
  • Sir Ulick Burke, Irish nobleman

    • References

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