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1353

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{{C14 year in topic}}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.{{cite book | last = Musarra | first = Antonio | title = Il Grifo e il Leone: Genova e Venezia in lotta per il Mediterraneo | year = 2020 | publisher = Editori Laterza | location = Bari and Rome | isbn = 978-88-581-4072-7 | language = Italian | pages=237–238 }}

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  • 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.{{cite book|editor1-link=Nehemia Levtzion|editor1-last=Levtzion|editor1-first=Nehemia|editor2-last=Hopkins|editor2-first=John F. P.|title=Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West Africa|publisher=Marcus Weiner Press|location=New York|year=2000|isbn=1-55876-241-8|page=299}}
  • The Decameron is finished by Giovanni Boccaccio.
  • The Black Death (1331) subsides.
  • The Lao kingdom of Lan Xang is founded by Fa Ngum.

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