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{{Year nav|1253}} {{Year in various calendars|1253}} {{Year article header|1253}} == Events == * [[July 6]] – [[Mindaugas]] is crowned as King of [[Lithuania]]. * [[July]] – [[William II, Count of Holland]] defeats the [[Flanders|Flemish]] army at [[Westkapelle]]. * A series of [[Naval warfare|naval wars]] begins between the [[Italy|Italian]] [[city-state]]s of [[Genoa]] and [[Venice]], which will continue sporadically until [[1371]]. * King [[Henry III of England]] meets with [[English people|English]] nobles and church leaders to reaffirm the validity of [[Magna Carta]]. * [[Pope Innocent IV]] returns to [[Rome]], having left nine years earlier in [[1244]] to depose [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor]], and being unable to return until after Frederick's death due to the agitation throughout Europe caused by that action. * Having rebuffed the armed forces of [[Conrad IV of Germany]], Pope Innocent IV offers [[Sicily]] to Edmund, son of King [[Henry III of England]]. * [[Galicia (Central Europe)|Galicia]] becomes a vassal state to the expanding [[Mongol Empire]]. == Deaths == * [[January 19]] – [[Dogen]], Japanese founder of the Soto school of Zen Buddhism * [[August 11]] – [[Clare of Assisi]], Italian follower of [[Francis of Assisi]] (born [[1194]]) * [[October 9]] – [[Robert Grosseteste]], English statesman and theologian * [[Wenceslaus I, King of Bohemia]] * [[Theobald IV of Champagne]] (born [[1201]]) * Saint [[Richard of Chichester]] * King [[Henry I of Cyprus]] (born [[1217]]) * [[Amadeus IV of Savoy]] (born [[1197]]) [[Category:1253| ]]