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| Gregorian calendar | 1053 MLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1806 |
| Armenian calendar | 502 ԹՎ ՇԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5803 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 974–975 |
| Bengali calendar | 460 |
| Berber calendar | 2003 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1597 |
| Burmese calendar | 415 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6561–6562 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3749 or 3689 — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3750 or 3690 |
| Coptic calendar | 769–770 |
| Discordian calendar | 2219 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1045–1046 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4813–4814 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1109–1110 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 974–975 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4153–4154 |
| Holocene calendar | 11053 |
| Igbo calendar | 53–54 |
| Iranian calendar | 431–432 |
| Islamic calendar | 444–445 |
| Japanese calendar | Eishō 8 / Tengi 1 (天喜元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 956–957 |
| Julian calendar | 1053 MLIII |
| Korean calendar | 3386 |
| Minguo calendar | 859 before ROC 民前859年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −415 |
| Seleucid era | 1364/1365 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1595–1596 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Water-Dragon) 1179 or 798 or 26 — to — ཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Water-Snake) 1180 or 799 or 27 |
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1053 (MLIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1053rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 53rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 11th century, and the 4th year of the 1050s decade. As of the start of 1053, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
Events
- June 18 – Battle of Civitate: 3,000 horsemen of Norman Count Humphrey defeat the troops of Pope Leo IX.
- Byōdō-in, Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, is built. Heian period (approximate date).
- Jōchō makes Amida Buddha, Byodo-in. Heian period (approximate date).
Births
- July 7 – Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
- St-Hugues, Bishop of Guenette (d. 1132)
- Guibert of Nogent, French historian and theologian (d. 1124)
- Vladimir Monomakh, Prince of Kiev (d. 1125)
- Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona
- Berenguer Ramon II, Count of Barcelona
Deaths
- April 15 – Godwin, Earl of Wessex (b. 1001)
- October 25 – Count Enguerrand II of Ponthieu