Timeline of 1553
(Tenmon 22; 天文二十二年)
- 1553/4 Oda Nobunaga and Saitô Dôsan meet at a temple in Owari province
- 1553/8 Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin confront each other for the first time in the 1st Battle of Kawanakajima in Shinano province - also known as the Battle of Fuse.