1953

From top to bottom, left to right: Troops of the King's African Rifles on watch for Mau Mau rebels during the Mau Mau rebellion; Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest; Coup supporters celebrate victory of the 1953 Iranian coup d'état; The wreckage of the KA locomotive in the Tangiwai disaster; Elizabeth proceeding past the Coronation Chair in her Coronation; Soviet T-34-85 in East Berlin during the East German uprising of 1953; the state funeral procession of Joseph Stalin; Aftermath of the North Sea flood of 1953.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
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1953 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1953
MCMLIII
Ab urbe condita2706
Armenian calendar1402
ԹՎ ՌՆԲ
Assyrian calendar6703
Baháʼí calendar109–110
Balinese saka calendar1874–1875
Bengali calendar1360
Berber calendar2903
British Regnal yearEliz. 2 – 2 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2497
Burmese calendar1315
Byzantine calendar7461–7462
Chinese calendar壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
4650 or 4443
    — to —
癸巳年 (Water Snake)
4651 or 4444
Coptic calendar1669–1670
Discordian calendar3119
Ethiopian calendar1945–1946
Hebrew calendar5713–5714
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2009–2010
 - Shaka Samvat1874–1875
 - Kali Yuga5053–5054
Holocene calendar11953
Igbo calendar953–954
Iranian calendar1331–1332
Islamic calendar1372–1373
Japanese calendarShōwa 28
(昭和28年)
Javanese calendar1884–1885
Juche calendar42
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4286
Minguo calendarROC 42
民國42年
Nanakshahi calendar485
Thai solar calendar2496
Tibetan calendar阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
2079 or 1698 or 926
    — to —
阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
2080 or 1699 or 927

1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1953rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 953rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1950s decade.