This article is about the year 53. For the number (and other uses) 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 Politics State leaders Sovereign states Birth and death categories Births Deaths Establishment and disestablishment categories Establishments Disestablishments v d e 53 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 53 LIII Ab urbe condita 806 Armenian calendar N/A Bah' calendar -1791 -1790 Bengali calendar -540 Berber calendar 1003 English Regnal year N/A Buddhist calendar 597 Burmese calendar -585 Byzantine calendar 5561 5562 Chinese calendar (2689/2749-11-22) to (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 v d e Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 53

Year 53 (LIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Antonius (or less frequently year 806 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 53 for this year has been used since the early medieval period when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. 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 (98117) Kanishka I king of the Kush in India protector of Buddhism Saturnin Syrian theologian Domitia Longina first wife of Roman emperor Domitian (d. 130) Deaths References