53

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	20s 30s 40s – 50s – 60s 70s 80s
Years:	50 51 52 – 53 – 54 55 56

53 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

Year 53 (LIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Roman emperor Claudius removes Agrippa II from the tetrarchy of Chalcis.
Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus and Quintus Haterius Antoninus become Roman consuls.
Claudius secures a senatorial decree that gives jurisdiction in financial cases to imperial procurators. This marks a significant strengthening of imperial powers at the expense of the Senate.
Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
Claudius accepts Nero as his successor, to the detriment of Britannicus, his son by his first wife, Valeria Messalina.
Distinct fellowships within the reign of centricles fall to the dominion of Gaulic barbarians, which provoked an enclave uprising in the foothills of what are now the Alps.

Seneca writes the tragedy Agamemnon, which he intends to be read as the last chapter of a trilogy including two of his other tragedies, Medea and Edipus.