1253

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1230s 1240s 1250s 1260s 1270s
Years:	1250 1251 1252 1253 1254 1255 1256

1253 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1253 MCCLIII
Ab urbe condita	2006
Armenian calendar	702 ԹՎ ՉԲ
Assyrian calendar	6003
Balinese saka calendar	1174–1175
Bengali calendar	660
Berber calendar	2203
English Regnal year	37 Hen. 3 – 38 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1797
Burmese calendar	615
Byzantine calendar	6761–6762
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 3950 or 3743     — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3951 or 3744
Coptic calendar	969–970
Discordian calendar	2419
Ethiopian calendar	1245–1246
Hebrew calendar	5013–5014
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1309–1310
- Shaka Samvat	1174–1175
- Kali Yuga	4353–4354
Holocene calendar	11253
Igbo calendar	253–254
Iranian calendar	631–632
Islamic calendar	650–651
Japanese calendar	Kenchō 5 (建長５年)
Javanese calendar	1162–1163
Julian calendar	1253 MCCLIII
Korean calendar	3586
Minguo calendar	659 before ROC 民前659年
Nanakshahi calendar	−215
Thai solar calendar	1795–1796
Tibetan calendar	阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 1379 or 998 or 226     — to — 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 1380 or 999 or 227

Year 1253 (MCCLIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• July – William II, Count of Holland defeats the Flemish army at Westkapelle.
• July 6 – Mindaugas is crowned as the only King of Lithuania.
• A series of naval wars begins between the Italian city-states of Genoa and Venice, which will continue sporadically until 1371.
• King Henry III of England meets with English nobles and church leaders to reaffirm the validity of the Magna Carta.
• Pope Innocent IV returns to Rome, having left 9 years earlier in 1244 to depose Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, and being unable to return until after Frederick's death, due to the agitation throughout Europe caused by that action.
• Having rebuffed the armed forces of Conrad IV of Germany, Pope Innocent IV offers Sicily to Edmund, son of King Henry III of England.
• Halych–Volynia becomes a vassal state to the expanding Mongol Empire.
• Matthew Paris writes Historia Anglorum, a work on English history.
• The Basilica of San Francesco, the earliest important structure in the Italian Gothic style of architecture, is completed in Assisi, Italy.
• Sligo Abbey is built in Sligo, Ireland.
• The Domus Conversorum, a building and institution in London for Jews who had converted to Christianity, is established by King Henry III of England.

Asia

• April 28 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, declares his intent to preach the Lotus Sutra and Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō as the true Buddhism, thus founding Nichiren Buddhism.
• May – King Louis IX of France dispatches William of Rubruck from Constantinople on a missionary journey to convert the Tatars of central and eastern Asia. Later that year, William records the first meeting between European Christians and Buddhists.
• The Mongol Empire launches attacks on the Muslim cities of Baghdad and Cairo.
• The Mongol Empire destroys the Dali Kingdom in modern Yunnan and incorporates the region into their empire.
• Kublai Khan introduces the baisha xiyue song and dance suite to the music of Yunnan.
• The Chinese era Baoyou begins in the Southern Song dynasty of China.
• The Mongols defeat the Thai confederacy.

Births

• March 20 – Magadu, renamed Wareru, founder of Ramanya Kingdom, renamed Hanthawady Kingdom of Pegu (b. a commoner; d. on a Saturday in January 1307)
• October 17 – Saint Ivo of Kermartin, French canon lawyer
• probable
  • John I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1294)
  • Hugh II of Cyprus (d. 1267)

Deaths

• January 18 – King Henry I of Cyprus (b. 1217)
• January 19 – Dōgen, Japanese founder of the Soto school of Zen Buddhism
• April 3 – Saint Richard of Chichester
• June 24 – Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy (b. 1197)
• July 8 – Theobald I of Navarre (b. 1201)
• August 11 – Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (b. 1194)
• September 23 – Wenceslaus I of Bohemia
• October 9 – Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and theologian