1353

February 2011 1353 July 2017 1353 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. Musarra Antonio Il Grifo e il Leone: Genova e Venezia in lotta per il Mediterraneo 2020 Editori Laterza Bari and Rome 978-88-581-4072-7 Italian 237–238 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.Nehemia Levtzion Levtzion Nehemia Hopkins John F. P. Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West Africa Marcus Weiner Press New York 2000 1-55876-241-8 299 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