1053

1053 (MLIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1053rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 53rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 11th century, and the 4th year of the 1050s decade. As of the start of 1053, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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

1053 in other 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) 3749 or 3689     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3750 or 3690
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	ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Water-Dragon) 1179 or 798 or 26     — to — ཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Water-Snake) 1180 or 799 or 27

Events

• June 18 – Battle of Civitate: 3,000 horsemen of Norman Count Humphrey defeat the troops of Pope Leo IX.
• Byōdō-in, Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, is built. Heian period (approximate date).
• Jōchō makes Amida Buddha, Byodo-in. Heian period (approximate date).

Births

• July 7 – Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
• St-Hugues, Bishop of Guenette (d. 1132)
• Guibert of Nogent, French historian and theologian (d. 1124)
• Vladimir Monomakh, Prince of Kiev (d. 1125)
• Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona
• Berenguer Ramon II, Count of Barcelona

Deaths

• April 15 – Godwin, Earl of Wessex (b. 1001)
• October 25 – Count Enguerrand II of Ponthieu