This article is about the year 53. For the number 53, see 53 (number).
Millennium:
1st millennium
Centuries:
1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:
20s 30s 40s – 50s – 60s 70s 80s
Years:
50 51 52 – 53 – 54 55 56
53 by topic
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Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
53 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar
53
LIII
Ab urbe condita
805
Armenian calendar
N/A
Bahá'í calendar
-1791 – -1790
Bengali calendar
-540
Berber calendar
1003
Buddhist calendar
597
Burmese calendar
-585
Byzantine calendar
5561 – 5562
Chinese calendar
壬子年十一月廿二日
(2689/2749-11-22)
— to —
癸丑年十二月初三日
(2690/2750-12-3)
Coptic calendar
-231 – -230
Ethiopian calendar
45 – 46
Hebrew calendar
3813 – 3814
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat
109 – 110
- Shaka Samvat
N/A
- Kali Yuga
3154 – 3155
Holocene calendar
10053
Iranian calendar
569 BP – 568 BP
Islamic calendar
587 BH – 585 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar
2386
Thai solar calendar
596
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Year 53 (LIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events By place Roman Empire Roman emperor Claudius removes Agrippa II from the tetrarchy of Chalcis. Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus and Quintus Haterius Antoninus become Roman consuls. Claudius secures a senatorial decree that gives jurisdiction in financial cases to imperial procurators. This marks a significant strengthening of imperial powers at the expense of the Senate. Nero marries Claudia Octavia. Claudius accepts Nero as his successor, to the detriment of Britannicus, his son by his first wife, Valeria Messalina. Distinct fellowships within the reign of centricles fall to the dominion of Gaulic barbarians, which provoked an enclave uprising in the foothills of what are now the Alps. By topic Religion Evodius succeeds Saint Peter as Patriarch of Antioch. Arts and sciences Seneca writes the tragedy Agamemnon, which he intends to be read as the last chapter of a trilogy including two of his other tragedies, Medea and Edipus. Births September 18—Marcus Ulpius Traianus, Roman emperor (98–117 AD) Kanishka I, king of the Kush in India, protector of Buddhism Saturnin, Syrian theologian Domitia Longina, first wife of Roman emperor Domitian (d. 130 AD) Deaths
