1353

'Years:' 1350 1351 1352 - 1353 - 1354 1355 1356

'Decades:' 1320s 1330s 1340s - '1350s' - 1360s 1370s 1380s

'Centuries:' 13th century - '14th century' - 15th century

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ The Decameron was finished by Giovanni Boccaccio.

★ March 3 - Bern signs an alliance with the Swiss Confederation.

Births

★ July 15 - Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)

★ Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1413)

★ Margaret I of Denmark, queen of Haakon VI of Norway (died 1412)

★ John Purvey, English scholar and Bible translator (died 1428)

Deaths

★ March 11 - Theognostus, metropolitan of Kiev and Moscow

★ Roger Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Ruthyn

★ Simeon of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow and Vladimir

★ Matilda, daughter of King Robert the Bruce of Scotland

★ Togha Temür, claimant to the throne of the Mongol Il-Khanate in Persia (assassinated)

★ Sir Ulick Burke, Irish nobleman