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

Events [ edit ]

January–December [ edit ]

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

Date unknown [ edit ]

• 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 . ^[1]
• The Decameron is finished by Giovanni Boccaccio .
• The Black Death ( 1331 ) subsides.
• The Lao kingdom of Lan Xang is founded by Fa Ngum .

Births [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]

• 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 Temur , 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

References [ edit ]