1353

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1330s 1340s 1350s 1360s 1370s
Years:	1350 1351 1352 1353 1354 1355 1356
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1353 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1353 MCCCLIII
Ab urbe condita	2106
Armenian calendar	802 ԹՎ ՊԲ
Assyrian calendar	6103
Balinese saka calendar	1274–1275
Bengali calendar	759–760
Berber calendar	2303
English Regnal year	26  Edw. 3  – 27  Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1897
Burmese calendar	715
Byzantine calendar	6861–6862
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water  Dragon) 4050 or 3843     — to — 癸巳年 (Water  Snake) 4051 or 3844
Coptic calendar	1069–1070
Discordian calendar	2519
Ethiopian calendar	1345–1346
Hebrew calendar	5113–5114
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1409–1410
- Shaka Samvat	1274–1275
- Kali Yuga	4453–4454
Holocene calendar	11353
Igbo calendar	353–354
Iranian calendar	731–732
Islamic calendar	753–754
Japanese calendar	Bunna 2 (文和２年)
Javanese calendar	1265–1266
Julian calendar	1353 MCCCLIII
Korean calendar	3686
Minguo calendar	559 before ROC 民前559年
Nanakshahi calendar	−115
Thai solar calendar	1895–1896
Tibetan calendar	阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 1479 or 1098 or 326     — to — 阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 1480 or 1099 or 327

Year 1353 ( MCCCLIII ) 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 – The Battle of Alghero results in a crushing victory of the allied Aragonese and Venetian fleet over the Genoese fleet, most of which is captured. ^[1]

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. ^[2]
• The Decameron is finished by Giovanni Boccaccio.
• The Black Death (1331) subsides.
• The Lao kingdom of Lan Xang is founded by Fa Ngum.

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. 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 – 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 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

References

1. Musarra, Antonio (2020). Il Grifo e il Leone: Genova e Venezia in lotta per il Mediterraneo (in Italian). Bari and Rome: Editori Laterza. pp. 237–238. ISBN   978-88-581-4072-7.
2. Levtzion, Nehemia; Hopkins, John F. P., eds. (2000). Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West Africa. New York: Marcus Weiner Press. p. 299. ISBN   1-55876-241-8.