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1353

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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 – Battle of Alghero: The allied Aragonese and Venetian fleets crush the Genoese fleet, most of which is captured.

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.
  • 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

References

  1. Musarra, Antonio. (2020). "Il Grifo e il Leone: Genova e Venezia in lotta per il Mediterraneo". Editori Laterza.
  2. (2000). "Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West Africa". Marcus Weiner Press.
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