953
953
Calendar year
Year 953 (CMLIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Quick Facts
| Gregorian calendar | 953 CMLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1706 |
| Armenian calendar | 402 ԹՎ ՆԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5703 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 874–875 |
| Bengali calendar | 360 |
| Berber calendar | 1903 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1497 |
| Burmese calendar | 315 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6461–6462 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬子年 (Water Rat) 3650 or 3443 — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3651 or 3444 |
| Coptic calendar | 669–670 |
| Discordian calendar | 2119 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 945–946 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4713–4714 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1009–1010 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 874–875 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4053–4054 |
| Holocene calendar | 10953 |
| Iranian calendar | 331–332 |
| Islamic calendar | 341–342 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenryaku 7 (天暦７年) |
| Javanese calendar | 853–854 |
| Julian calendar | 953 CMLIII |
| Korean calendar | 3286 |
| Minguo calendar | 959 before ROC 民前959年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −515 |
| Seleucid era | 1264/1265 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1495–1496 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 1079 or 698 or −74 — to — 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 1080 or 699 or −73 |
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By place
Byzantine Empire
- Battle of Marash: Emir Sayf al-Dawla marches north into the Byzantine Empire and ravages the countryside of Malatya (modern Turkey). On his way back, he crosses the Euphrates and intercepts a Byzantine army led by Bardas Phokas (the Elder), near Marash. The Byzantines are defeated; Bardas himself barely escapes through the intervention of his attendants. His son Constantine Phokas, governor of Seleucia, is captured and held prisoner in Aleppo, until his death from an illness some time later.[1]
Europe
- Summer – Liudolf, duke of Swabia, and his brother-in-law Conrad the Red rebel against King Otto I. Otto and his army fail to capture the cities of Mainz and Augsburg. He declares Liudolf and Conrad as outlaws in absentia. His brother Bruno I, archbishop of Cologne, restores royal authority in Lorraine, but some of the rebellious dukes receive support from the Hungarians. They seize the opportunity to invade Bavaria.
- The town of Póvoa de Varzim is first mentioned during the rule of Mumadona Dias, countess of Portugal, under the name Villa Euracini.
Africa
- March 19 – Caliph al-Mansur bi-Nasr Allah dies after a severe illness. He is succeeded by his 21-year-old son al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah as ruler of the Fatimid Caliphate. His authority is recognized over most of what later will be Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.
- September 14 – Guo Zongxun, Chinese emperor (d. 973)
- September 21 – Abu Ishaq Ibrahim, Buyid prince
- Charles, duke of Lower Lorraine (d. 993)
- date unknown
- Fujiwara no Korenari, Japanese courtier (d. 989)
- Fujiwara no Michitaka, Japanese nobleman (d. 995)
- Herbert III, count of Vermandois (d. 1015)
- Kisai Marvazi, Persian author and poet (d. 1002)
- Watanabe no Tsuna, Japanese samurai (d. 1025)
- Xiao Yanyan, Chinese Khitan empress (d. 1009)
- probable
- Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1012)
- Al-Karaji, Persian mathematician
- Bermudo II, king of León and Galicia
- March 19 – al-Mansur bi-Nasr Allah, Fatimid caliph (b. 913)
- August 1 – Yingtian, Chinese Khitan empress (b. 879)
- November 18 – Liutgard, duchess of Lorraine (b. 931)
date unknown
- Abas I, king of the Bagratuni dynasty (Armenia)[2]
- Mastalus I, penultimate patricius of Amalfi (Italy)
- Ma Yinsun, Chinese official and chancellor
- Muhammad bin Musafir, Sallarid ruler (approximate date)
- Rasso, Frankish military leader, pilgrim and saint
- Wang Jun, Chinese singer and chancellor
- probable
- Æthelgar, bishop of Crediton
- Rhodri ap Hywel, king of Deheubarth (Wales)
- Vasiliev, A.A. (1968). Byzance et les Arabes, Tome II, 1ére partie: Les relations politiques de Byzance et des Arabes à L'époque de la dynastie macédonienne (867–959). Brussels: Éditions de l'Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientales.
- John M. Douglas (1992). The Armenians. J.J. Winthrop Corporation. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-9631381-0-1.