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| Gregorian calendar | 1553 MDLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2306 |
| Armenian calendar | 1002 ԹՎ ՌԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6303 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1474–1475 |
| Bengali calendar | 960 |
| Berber calendar | 2503 |
| English Regnal year | 6 Edw. 6 – 1 Mar. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2097 |
| Burmese calendar | 915 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7061–7062 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4249 or 4189 — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4250 or 4190 |
| Coptic calendar | 1269–1270 |
| Discordian calendar | 2719 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1545–1546 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5313–5314 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1609–1610 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1474–1475 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4653–4654 |
| Holocene calendar | 11553 |
| Igbo calendar | 553–554 |
| Iranian calendar | 931–932 |
| Islamic calendar | 960–961 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenbun 22 (天文２２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1471–1472 |
| Julian calendar | 1553 MDLIII |
| Korean calendar | 3886 |
| Minguo calendar | 359 before ROC 民前359年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 85 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2095–2096 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 1679 or 1298 or 526 — to — ཆུ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Water-Ox) 1680 or 1299 or 527 |
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1553 (MDLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Julian calendar.
Events
- June 26 – Christ's Hospital and King Edward's School, Witley created by Royal Charter
- July 6 – Edward VI of England dies
- July 10 – Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen of England – for the next nine days
- July 18 – Lord Mayor of London proclaims Queen Mary as the rightful Queen – Lady Jane Grey willingly gives up the title of queen.
- August 2 – Battle of Marciano. French forces invading Italy under Marshal Blaise de Monluc are defeated by an imperial army under the Marquis of Marignano and are forced to retreat into Siena, which is besieged by the imperial forces.
- August 3 – Queen Mary arrives in London
- August 22 – Duke of Northumberland, supporter of Jane Grey, executed
- September Protestant bishops in England are arrested and Roman Catholic bishops are restored
- September 23 – The Sadians consolidate their power in Morocco by defeating the last of their enemies
- October 27 – Calvinists burn Michael Servetus as a heretic in Geneva
- Battle of Sievershausen – Elector Maurice of Saxony defeats the Catholic forces of Margrave Albert of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. Maurice is mortally wounded.
- Shanghai is fortified for the first time.