diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index 23fe8ea..a3b0974 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ export interface SetCookie {
   maxAge?: number;
   /**
    * Specifies the `Date` object to be the value for the [`Expires` `Set-Cookie` attribute](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-5.2.1).
+   * When serializing, the UTC year must be between 1601 and 9999 inclusive.
    * When no expiration is set, clients consider this a "non-persistent cookie" and delete it when the current session is over.
    *
    * The [cookie storage model specification](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-5.3) states that if both `expires` and
@@ -325,7 +326,12 @@ export function stringifySetCookie(
   }
 
   if (cookie.expires) {
-    if (!Number.isFinite(cookie.expires.valueOf())) {
+    const year = cookie.expires.getUTCFullYear();
+    if (
+      !Number.isFinite(cookie.expires.valueOf()) ||
+      year < 1601 ||
+      year > 9999
+    ) {
       throw new TypeError(`option expires is invalid: ${cookie.expires}`);
     }
 
diff --git a/src/stringify-set-cookie.spec.ts b/src/stringify-set-cookie.spec.ts
index f4e9cd4..cd3da59 100644
--- a/src/stringify-set-cookie.spec.ts
+++ b/src/stringify-set-cookie.spec.ts
@@ -165,6 +165,28 @@ describe("cookie.stringifySetCookie", () => {
       ).toThrow(/option expires is invalid/);
     });
 
+    it.each([-1, 0, 49, 50, 69, 99, 1600, 10000])(
+      "should reject expires with UTC year %s outside cookie bounds",
+      (year) => {
+        const expires = new Date(0);
+        expires.setUTCFullYear(year);
+        expect(() =>
+          stringifySetCookie({ name: "foo", value: "bar", expires }),
+        ).toThrow(/option expires is invalid/);
+      },
+    );
+
+    it.each([1601, 1970, 9999])(
+      "should preserve expires with supported UTC year %s",
+      (year) => {
+        const expires = new Date(0);
+        expires.setUTCFullYear(year);
+        expect(stringifySetCookie({ name: "foo", value: "bar", expires })).toBe(
+          `foo=bar; Expires=${expires.toUTCString()}`,
+        );
+      },
+    );
+
     it("should set expires to given date", () => {
       expect(
         stringifySetCookie({