953

Year 953 (CMLIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
953 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar953
CMLIII
Ab urbe condita1706
Armenian calendar402
ԹՎ ՆԲ
Assyrian calendar5703
Balinese saka calendar874–875
Bengali calendar360
Berber calendar1903
Buddhist calendar1497
Burmese calendar315
Byzantine calendar6461–6462
Chinese calendar壬子年 (Water Rat)
3649 or 3589
     to 
癸丑年 (Water Ox)
3650 or 3590
Coptic calendar669–670
Discordian calendar2119
Ethiopian calendar945–946
Hebrew calendar4713–4714
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1009–1010
 - Shaka Samvat874–875
 - Kali Yuga4053–4054
Holocene calendar10953
Iranian calendar331–332
Islamic calendar341–342
Japanese calendarTenryaku 7
(天暦7年)
Javanese calendar853–854
Julian calendar953
CMLIII
Korean calendar3286
Minguo calendar959 before ROC
民前959年
Nanakshahi calendar−515
Seleucid era1264/1265 AG
Thai solar calendar1495–1496
Tibetan calendar阳水鼠年
(male Water-Rat)
1079 or 698 or −74
     to 
阴水牛年
(female Water-Ox)
1080 or 699 or −73
Watanabe no Tsuna (953–1025)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Battle of Marash: Emir Sayf al-Dawla marches north into the Byzantine Empire and ravages the countryside of Malatya (modern Turkey). On his way back, he crosses the Euphrates and intercepts a Byzantine army led by Bardas Phokas (the Elder), near Marash. The Byzantines are defeated; Bardas himself barely escapes through the intervention of his attendants. His son Constantine Phokas, governor of Seleucia, is captured and held prisoner in Aleppo, until his death from an illness some time later.[1]

Europe

  • Summer Liudolf, duke of Swabia, and his brother-in-law Conrad the Red rebel against King Otto I. Otto and his army fail to capture the cities of Mainz and Augsburg. He declares Liudolf and Conrad as outlaws in absentia. His brother Bruno I, archbishop of Cologne, restores royal authority in Lorraine, but some of the rebellious dukes receive support from the Hungarians. They seize the opportunity to invade Bavaria.
  • The town of Póvoa de Varzim is first mentioned during the rule of Mumadona Dias, countess of Portugal, under the name Villa Euracini.

Africa

  • March 19 Caliph al-Mansur bi-Nasr Allah dies after a severe illness. He is succeeded by his 21-year-old son al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah as ruler of the Fatimid Caliphate. His authority is recognized over most of what later will be Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.

Births

  • September 14 Guo Zongxun, Chinese emperor (d. 973)
  • September 21 Abu Ishaq Ibrahim, Buyid prince
  • Charles, duke of Lower Lorraine (d. 993)
  • date unknown
    • Fujiwara no Korenari, Japanese courtier (d. 989)
    • Fujiwara no Michitaka, Japanese nobleman (d. 995)
    • Herbert III, count of Vermandois (d. 1015)
    • Kisai Marvazi, Persian author and poet (d. 1002)
    • Watanabe no Tsuna, Japanese samurai (d. 1025)
    • Xiao Yanyan, Chinese Khitan empress (d. 1009)
  • probable

Deaths

date unknown

    • Abas I, king of the Bagratuni Dynasty (Armenia)[2]
    • Mastalus I, penultimate patricius of Amalfi (Italy)
    • Ma Yinsun, Chinese official and chancellor
    • Muhammad bin Musafir, Sallarid ruler (approximate date)
    • Rasso, Frankish military leader, pilgrim and saint
    • Wang Jun, Chinese singer and chancellor
  • probable
    • Æthelgar, bishop of Crediton
    • Rhodri ap Hywel, king of Deheubarth (Wales)

References

  1. Vasiliev, A.A. (1968). Byzance et les Arabes, Tome II, 1ére partie: Les relations politiques de Byzance et des Arabes à L'époque de la dynastie macédonienne (867–959). Brussels: Éditions de l'Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientales.
  2. John M. Douglas (1992). The Armenians. J.J. Winthrop Corporation. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-9631381-0-1.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.