1353

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

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.
 * 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