1353

This article is about the year 1353.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1320s  1330s  1340s  – 1350s –  1360s  1370s  1380s
Years:	1350 1351 1352 – 1353 – 1354 1355 1356

1353 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1353 in poetry

1353 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1353 MCCCLIII
Ab urbe condita	2106
Armenian calendar	802 ԹՎ ՊԲ
Assyrian calendar	6103
Bengali calendar	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) 4049 or 3989     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4050 or 3990
Coptic calendar	1069–1070
Discordian calendar	2519
Ethiopian calendar	1345–1346
Hebrew calendar	5113–5114
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1409–1410
- Shaka Samvat	1275–1276
- Kali Yuga	4454–4455
Holocene calendar	11353
Igbo calendar	353–354
Iranian calendar	731–732
Islamic calendar	753–754
Japanese calendar	Bunna 2 (文和２年)
Julian calendar	1353 MCCCLIII
Korean calendar	3686
Minguo calendar	559 before ROC 民前559年
Thai solar calendar	1895–1896

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

Events

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