1353

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

Events of 1353

* "The Decameron" is finished by Giovanni Boccaccio.
* March 3 - Bern signs an alliance with the Swiss Confederation.

Births

* July 15 - Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)
*"date unknown"
**Thomas Arundel Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1413)
**Margaret I of Denmark, queen of Haakon VI of Norway (d. 1412)
**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/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