AD 53

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Claudius removes Herod Agrippa II from the tetrarchy of Chalcis in Greece.
• Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus and Quintus Haterius Antoninus become Roman consuls.
• Claudius secures a senatorial decree that gives jurisdiction in financial cases to imperial procurators. This marks a significant strengthening of imperial powers at the expense of the Senate.
• June 9 - Nero is adopted by Claudius as his son and marries his 14-year-old daughter Claudia Octavia.
• Claudius accepts Nero as his successor, to the detriment of Britannicus, his son by his first wife, Valeria Messalina.
• Distinct fellowships within the reign of centricles fall to the dominion of Gaulic barbarians, which provoke an enclave uprising in the foothills of what are now the Alps.
• Cardiff is founded by Aulus Didius Gallus.

  Korea

• Taejodae becomes ruler of the kingdom of Goguryeo.

  By topic

Religion

• Evodius succeeds Saint Peter as Patriarch of Antioch.

  Arts and sciences

• Seneca writes the tragedy Agamemnon, which he intends to be read as the last chapter of a trilogy including two of his other tragedies, Medea and Edipus.

  Births

• September 18 - Marcus Ulpius Traianus, Roman emperor
• Domitia Longina, Roman empress
• Kanishka I, Indian ruler of the Kushan Empire

  Deaths

• Mobon, Korean ruler of Goguryeo