1053
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| Millennium | 
| 2nd millennium | 
| Centuries | 
| Decades | 
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| 1053 by topic | 
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| Leaders | 
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| Birth and death categories | 
| Births – Deaths | 
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | 
| Establishments – Disestablishments | 
| Gregorian calendar | 1053 MLIII | 
| Ab urbe condita | 1806 | 
| Armenian calendar | 502 ԹՎ ՇԲ | 
| Assyrian calendar | 5803 | 
| Balinese saka calendar | 974–975 | 
| Bengali calendar | 459–460 | 
| 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 | 
Year 1053 (MLIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.