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{{C14 year in topic}}Year '''1353''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCCCLIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Canton of Bern|Bern]] signs an alliance with the [[Old Swiss Confederacy]].
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[War of the Straits]] and [[Sardinian–Aragonese war]] &ndash; 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.<ref>{{cite book | last = Musarra | first = Antonio | title = Il Grifo e il Leone: Genova e Venezia in lotta per il Mediterraneo | year = 2020 | publisher = Editori Laterza | location = Bari and Rome | isbn = 978-88-581-4072-7 | language = Italian | pages=237–238 }}</ref>

=== Date unknown ===
* The [[Moroccan people|Moroccan]] traveler [[Ibn Battuta]] makes the first recorded visit to [[Timbuktu]] and [[Kabara, Mali|Kabara]], when returning from a stay in the capital of the [[Mali Empire]].<ref>{{cite book|editor1-link=Nehemia Levtzion|editor1-last=Levtzion|editor1-first=Nehemia|editor2-last=Hopkins|editor2-first=John F. P.|title=Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West Africa|publisher=Marcus Weiner Press|location=New York|year=2000|isbn=1-55876-241-8|page=299}}</ref>
* ''[[The Decameron]]'' is finished by [[Giovanni Boccaccio]].
* The [[Black Death]] ([[1331]]) subsides.
* The [[Lao people|Lao]] kingdom of [[Lan Xang]] is founded by [[Fa Ngum]].</onlyinclude>

== Births ==
* [[March]] &ndash; [[Margaret I of Denmark]], queen of [[Haakon VI of Norway]] (d. [[1412]])
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; [[Anne of Bavaria]], queen consort of Bohemia (b. [[1329]])
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Roger Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Ruthyn]]
* [[March 11]] &ndash; [[Theognostus]], metropolitan of Kiev and Moscow
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Simeon of Russia]], Grand Prince of Moscow and Vladimir
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria]] (b. [[1306]])
* November or December &ndash; [[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 
** [[Ulick Burke of Annaghkeen|Sir Ulick Burke]], Irish nobleman

== References ==
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