Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century 9th century 10th century
Decades:	830s 840s 850s 860s 870s
Years:	850 851 852 853 854 855 856

853 by topic
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853 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	853 DCCCLIII
Ab urbe condita	1606
Armenian calendar	302 ԹՎ ՅԲ
Assyrian calendar	5603
Balinese saka calendar	774–775
Bengali calendar	260
Berber calendar	1803
Buddhist calendar	1397
Burmese calendar	215
Byzantine calendar	6361–6362
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3550 or 3343 — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3551 or 3344
Coptic calendar	569–570
Discordian calendar	2019
Ethiopian calendar	845–846
Hebrew calendar	4613–4614
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	909–910
- Shaka Samvat	774–775
- Kali Yuga	3953–3954
Holocene calendar	10853
Iranian calendar	231–232
Islamic calendar	238–239
Japanese calendar	Ninju 3 (仁寿３年)
Javanese calendar	750–751
Julian calendar	853 DCCCLIII
Korean calendar	3186
Minguo calendar	1059 before ROC 民前1059年
Nanakshahi calendar	−615
Seleucid era	1164/1165 AG
Thai solar calendar	1395–1396
Tibetan calendar	阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 979 or 598 or −174 — to — 阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 980 or 599 or −173

Year 853 (DCCCLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

May 22 – A Byzantine fleet (85 ships and 5,000 men) sacks and destroys the port city of Damietta, located on the Nile Delta in Egypt. A large quantity of weapons and supplies intended for the Emirate of Crete are captured.^[1]

Danish Vikings attempt to subjugate the Curonians on the shoreline of the Baltic Sea, but they are repulsed. King Olof leads Swedish Vikings in retaliation, and attacks the towns of Seeburg and Apuolė (modern Courland).
Viking marauders in Gaul sail eastward from Nantes without opposition, and reach Tours. The monasteries at Saint-Florent-le-Vieil and Marmoutier are ravaged.
King Charles the Bald bribes Boris I, ruler (khan) of the Bulgarian Empire, to form an alliance against his brother Louis the German, with Rastislav of Moravia.^[2]
Gauzbert, count of Maine, is killed during an ambush by citizens of Nantes, in revenge for the death of Lambert II.^[3]

King Burgred of Mercia appeals to Æthelwulf, king of the West Saxons, for help against the rebellious Welsh king Rhodri the Great. Æthelwulf agrees to send help, and Wales is subdued as far north as Anglesey.^[4]
Burgred (who inherited his crown last year)^{[clarification needed]} marries Æthelwulf's daughter Æthelswith, during a ceremony at the royal estate at Chippenham.^[4]

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