1053

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	1030s 1040s 1050s 1060s 1070s
Years:	1050 1051 1052 1053 1054 1055 1056

1053 in various calendars

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) 3750 or 3543     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3751 or 3544
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	阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 1179 or 798 or 26     — to — 阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 1180 or 799 or 27

Map of Battle of Civitate (Southern Italy). Papal forces (left) with blue banners.

Year 1053 (MLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• End of the Pecheneg Revolt: Emperor Constantine IX Monomachos makes peace with the Pechenegs. However, Pecheneg raids do not cease; they not only damage the economy by plundering, but Constantine is also forced to buy protection or peace from them by gifts, land grants, privileges and titles.

Europe

• June 18 – Battle of Civitate: Norman horsemen (3,000 men), led by Humphrey of Hauteville, count of Apulia and Calabria, rout the combined forces under Pope Leo IX, in Southern Italy. The Normans destroy the allied Papal army and capture Leo, who is imprisoned (as a hostage for 8 months) in Benevento.
• December – Conrad I, duke of Bavaria, is summoned to a Christmas court at Merseburg, and deposed by Emperor Henry III. He flees to King Andrew I in Hungary, and joins a coalition with the rebellious Welf III, duke of Carinthia. Henry's 4-year-old son Henry becomes the new duke of Bavaria.

England

• April – Harold Godwinson succeeds his father Godwin as earl of Wessex. He invites the exiled Edward the Exile, son of Edmund II, to return in the hope that he can claim the English throne from King Edward the Confessor.

By topic

Religion

• Jōchō sculpts Amida Buddha for the Byōdō-in Temple in Japan during the Heian period (approximate date).

Births

• May 26 – Vladimir II, Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1125)
• July 7 – Shirakawa, emperor of Japan (d. 1129)
• Berenguer Ramon II, count of Barcelona (approximate date)
• Guibert of Nogent, French historian and theologian (d. 1124) (approximate date)
• Hugh of Châteauneuf, bishop of Grenoble (d. 1132)
• Iorwerth ap Bleddyn, Welsh prince of Powys (d. 1111)
• Maria of Alania, Byzantine empress consort (d. 1118)
• Ramon Berenguer II, count of Barcelona (or 1054)
• Solomon (or Salomon), king of Hungary (d. 1087)
• Toba Sōjō, Japanese artist-monk (d. 1140)

Deaths

• by January 5 – Rhys ap Rhydderch, Welsh co-ruler of Morgannwg, killed
• March 25 – Procopius of Sázava, Czech hermit
• April 15 – Godwin of Wessex, English nobleman
• October 25 – Enguerrand II, count of Ponthieu
• November 7 – Lazaros, Byzantine monk and stylite
• Abu'l-Fath an-Nasir ad-Dailami, imam of Yemen, killed
• Chananel ben Chushiel, Tunisian Jewish rabbi (b. 990)
• Cormac O'Ruadrach, Irish priest and archdeacon
• Liu Yong, Chinese poet of the Song dynasty (b. 987)
• Murchadh Ua Beolláin, Irish priest and archdeacon
• Wulfsige (or Wulsy), English bishop of Lichfield