953
| Years | 
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| Millennium | 
| 1st millennium | 
| Centuries | 
| Decades | 
| Years | 
| 953 by topic | 
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| Leaders | 
| Categories | 
| 
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| Gregorian calendar | 953 CMLIII | 
| Ab urbe condita | 1706 | 
| Armenian calendar | 402 ԹՎ ՆԲ | 
| Assyrian calendar | 5703 | 
| Balinese saka calendar | 874–875 | 
| Bengali calendar | 359–360 | 
| 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 | 
Year 953 (CMLIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.