1293

Year 1293 (MCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

1293 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1293 MCCXCIII
Ab urbe condita	2046
Armenian calendar	742 ԹՎ ՉԽԲ
Assyrian calendar	6043
Balinese saka calendar	1214–1215
Bengali calendar	699–700
Berber calendar	2243
English Regnal year	21 Edw. 1 – 22 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1837
Burmese calendar	655
Byzantine calendar	6801–6802
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3990 or 3783     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3991 or 3784
Coptic calendar	1009–1010
Discordian calendar	2459
Ethiopian calendar	1285–1286
Hebrew calendar	5053–5054
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1349–1350
- Shaka Samvat	1214–1215
- Kali Yuga	4393–4394
Holocene calendar	11293
Igbo calendar	293–294
Iranian calendar	671–672
Islamic calendar	692–693
Japanese calendar	Shōō 6 / Einin 1 (永仁元年)
Javanese calendar	1203–1204
Julian calendar	1293 MCCXCIII
Korean calendar	3626
Minguo calendar	619 before ROC 民前619年
Nanakshahi calendar	−175
Thai solar calendar	1835–1836
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Water-Dragon) 1419 or 1038 or 266     — to — ཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Water-Snake) 1420 or 1039 or 267

Events

By area

Africa

• December – Mamluk sultan of Egypt Khalil is assassinated by his regent Baydara, who briefly claims the sultanate, before being assassinated himself by a rival political faction.^[1]

Asia

• May 26 – An earthquake in Kamakura, Japan kills an estimated 23,000.^[2]
• May 31 – The forces of Raden Wijaya win a major victory in the Mongol invasion of Java, which is considered to be the founding date of the city of Surabaya.
• The Japanese era Shōō ends, and the Einin era begins.^[3]
• Kublai Khan sends a fleet to the islands of Southeast Asia, including Java.^[4]
• The Hindu Majapahit Empire is founded by Kertarajasa in Java. It benefits from internal conflict and Mongol intervention, to defeat the Singhasari Kingdom and establish the empire.^[5]

Europe

• Torkel Knutsson leads Sweden in beginning the Third Swedish Crusade, against unchristianized Finnish Karelia.^[6] In the same year, the construction of Vyborg Castle begins, by orders of Knutsson.^[7]
• The Ordinances of Justice are enacted, in the Commune of Florence.^[8]
• The Isle of Wight is sold to King Edward I of England by Isabella de Forz, Countess of Devon, for 6,000 marks.^[9]

By topic

Arts and culture

• Dante Alighieri completes the book of verse La Vita Nuova.^[10]

Education

• May 20 – King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Studium General, forerunner to the modern Complutense University of Madrid.^[11]

Religion

• January – Ignatius bar Wahib becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Mardin.^[12]

Births

• John of Ruysbroeck, Brabantian mystic (approximate date; d. 1381)^[13]
• Margaret de Clare, English noblewoman (d. 1342)^[14]
• Fedlim Ó Conchobair, King of Connacht (d. 1316)^[15]
• Philip V of France (d. 1322)^[16]
• Philip VI of France (d. 1350)^[17]
• Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland (d. 1326)^[18]

Deaths

• May 2 – Meir of Rothenburg, German rabbi (b. c.1215)^[19]
• June 29 – Henry of Ghent, philosopher (b. c.1217)^[20]
• November 10 – Isabella de Forz, Countess of Devon (b. 1237)^[21]
• December 14 – Al-Ashraf Khalil, Mamluk sultan of Egypt (assassinated)^[22]
• date unknown
  • David VI Narin, King of Georgia (b. 1225)^[23]
  • William of Rubruck, Flemish Franciscan missionary (approximate date; b. c.1220)^[24]