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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 253 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 253 CCLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1006 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5003 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 174–175 |
| Bengali calendar | −341 – −340 |
| Berber calendar | 1203 |
| Buddhist calendar | 797 |
| Burmese calendar | −385 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5761–5762 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2950 or 2743 — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 2951 or 2744 |
| Coptic calendar | −31 – −30 |
| Discordian calendar | 1419 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 245–246 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4013–4014 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 309–310 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 174–175 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3353–3354 |
| Holocene calendar | 10253 |
| Iranian calendar | 369 BP – 368 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 380 BH – 379 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 132–133 |
| Julian calendar | 253 CCLIII |
| Korean calendar | 2586 |
| Minguo calendar | 1659 before ROC 民前1659年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1215 |
| Seleucid era | 564/565 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 795–796 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 379 or −2 or −774 — to — 阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 380 or −1 or −773 |
Year 253 (CCLIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Volusianus and Claudius (or, less frequently, year 1006 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 253 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.