1553

1553 (MDLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1553rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 553rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 16th century, and the 4th year of the 1550s decade. As of the start of 1553, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1520s  1530s  1540s  – 1550s –  1560s  1570s  1580s
Years:	1550 1551 1552 – 1553 – 1554 1555 1556

1553 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1553 MDLIII
Ab urbe condita	2306
Armenian calendar	1002 ԹՎ ՌԲ
Assyrian calendar	6303
Balinese saka calendar	1474–1475
Bengali calendar	960
Berber calendar	2503
English Regnal year	6 Edw. 6 – 1 Mar. 1
Buddhist calendar	2097
Burmese calendar	915
Byzantine calendar	7061–7062
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 4249 or 4189     — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4250 or 4190
Coptic calendar	1269–1270
Discordian calendar	2719
Ethiopian calendar	1545–1546
Hebrew calendar	5313–5314
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1609–1610
- Shaka Samvat	1474–1475
- Kali Yuga	4653–4654
Holocene calendar	11553
Igbo calendar	553–554
Iranian calendar	931–932
Islamic calendar	960–961
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 22 (天文２２年)
Javanese calendar	1471–1472
Julian calendar	1553 MDLIII
Korean calendar	3886
Minguo calendar	359 before ROC 民前359年
Nanakshahi calendar	85
Thai solar calendar	2095–2096
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 1679 or 1298 or 526     — to — ཆུ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Water-Ox) 1680 or 1299 or 527

Events

• June 26 – Christ's Hospital and King Edward's School, Witley created by Royal Charter
• July 6 – Edward VI of England dies
• July 10 – Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen of England – for the next nine days
• July 18 – Lord Mayor of London proclaims Queen Mary as the rightful Queen – Lady Jane Grey willingly gives up the title of queen.
• August 2 – Battle of Marciano. French forces invading Italy under Marshal Blaise de Monluc are defeated by an imperial army under the Marquis of Marignano and are forced to retreat into Siena, which is besieged by the imperial forces.
• August 3 – Queen Mary arrives in London
• August 22 – Duke of Northumberland, supporter of Jane Grey, executed
• September Protestant bishops in England are arrested and Roman Catholic bishops are restored
• September 23 – The Sadians consolidate their power in Morocco by defeating the last of their enemies
• October 27 – Calvinists burn Michael Servetus as a heretic in Geneva
• Battle of Sievershausen – Elector Maurice of Saxony defeats the Catholic forces of Margrave Albert of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. Maurice is mortally wounded.
• Shanghai is fortified for the first time.