There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 953 BC was a common year starting on a Wednesday, just like 1050 BC, 1039 BC, 1028 BC, 1022 BC, 1011 BC, 1000 BC, 994 BC, 983 BC, 972 BC, 966 BC in the century before it and 944 BC, 938 BC, 927 BC, 916 BC, 910 BC, 899 BC, 888 BC, 882 BC, 871 BC, 860 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.