1353
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| Gregorian calendar | 1353 MCCCLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2106 |
| Armenian calendar | 802 ԹՎ ՊԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6103 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1274–1275 |
| 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) 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 (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- March 3 – Bern signs an alliance with the Old Swiss Confederacy.
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.[1]
- 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
- ^ 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.
