1353

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