There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 1053 BC was a common year starting on a Thursday, just like 1150 BC, 1139 BC, 1128 BC, 1122 BC, 1111 BC, 1100 BC, 1094 BC, 1083 BC, 1072 BC, 1066 BC in the century before it and 1044 BC, 1038 BC, 1027 BC, 1016 BC, 1010 BC, 999 BC, 988 BC, 982 BC, 971 BC, 960 BC in the next.
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The new
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icons indicate the phases of the moon and appear only for dates in the Gregorian calendar, i.e. after 14 October 1582. The Chinese calendar is available only from 1645 to 2644, the first millenium since the last reform. The coloured columns mark the Sundays, the last day of the week per standard ISO-8601.
The normal calendar page for the current /year?2013 contains an introduction to the intriguing history of the year as we know it. The Calendar Converter has more detail. The so called Perpetual Calendar uses a trick from before the age of computers to find the weekday for any Gregorian date. Also see an overview of all historical events in the last six thousand years.