| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 553 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 553 DLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1306 |
| Armenian calendar | 2 ԹՎ Բ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5303 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 474–475 |
| Bengali calendar | −40 |
| Berber calendar | 1503 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1097 |
| Burmese calendar | −85 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6061–6062 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3250 or 3043 — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3251 or 3044 |
| Coptic calendar | 269–270 |
| Discordian calendar | 1719 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 545–546 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4313–4314 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 609–610 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 474–475 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3653–3654 |
| Holocene calendar | 10553 |
| Iranian calendar | 69 BP – 68 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 71 BH – 70 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 441–442 |
| Julian calendar | 553 DLIII |
| Korean calendar | 2886 |
| Minguo calendar | 1359 before ROC 民前1359年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −915 |
| Seleucid era | 864/865 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1095–1096 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 679 or 298 or −474 — to — 阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 680 or 299 or −473 |
Year 553 (DLIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 553 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.