893

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893 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	893 DCCCXCIII
Ab urbe condita	1646
Armenian calendar	342 ԹՎ ՅԽԲ
Assyrian calendar	5643
Balinese saka calendar	814–815
Bengali calendar	299–300
Berber calendar	1843
Buddhist calendar	1437
Burmese calendar	255
Byzantine calendar	6401–6402
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 3590 or 3383 — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3591 or 3384
Coptic calendar	609–610
Discordian calendar	2059
Ethiopian calendar	885–886
Hebrew calendar	4653–4654
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	949–950
- Shaka Samvat	814–815
- Kali Yuga	3993–3994
Holocene calendar	10893
Iranian calendar	271–272
Islamic calendar	279–280
Japanese calendar	Kanpyō 5 (寛平５年)
Javanese calendar	791–792
Julian calendar	893 DCCCXCIII
Korean calendar	3226
Minguo calendar	1019 before ROC 民前1019年
Nanakshahi calendar	−575
Seleucid era	1204/1205 AG
Thai solar calendar	1435–1436
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 1019 or 638 or −134 — to — ཆུ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Water-Ox) 1020 or 639 or −133

Vladimir, ruler (khan) of the Bulgarian Empire, is dethroned by his father Boris I, with help from loyal boyars. He is blinded, and succeeded by his brother Simeon I, as prince of Bulgaria; the capital is moved from Pliska to Preslav. Simeon makes an alliance with the Pechenegs (or Patzinaks), a semi-nomad Turkic tribe from the Central Asian steppes.^[1]
An East Frankish expeditionary force under Zwentibold, the eldest son of King Arnulf of Carinthia, crosses the Alps into Friuli. He makes junction at Verona, with the army of the deposed king Berengar I, and proceeds to lay siege to Pavia. After a three-month campaign, Zwentibold receives orders to head back to Bavaria, in case of a Magyar intervention.
The 13-year-old Charles III (the Simple), the posthumous son of Louis the Stammerer, is crowned king of the West Frankish Kingdom at the Reims Cathedral—though he is not recognized as such by King Odo (or Eudes) until 898.^[2]
King Alfonso III repopulates the city of Zamora with Mozarabs (Iberian Christians who have lived under Moorish rule) from Toledo in Al-Andalus (modern Spain).
Galindo II Aznárez succeeds his father Aznar II Galíndez as count of Aragon (until 922).

Spring – Prince Edward, the son of King Alfred the Great, defeats the Danish Viking raiders at Farnham, and forces them to take refuge on Thorney Island. At the same time, Danes from East Anglia sail around the Cornish coast, and besiege Exeter.^[3]
Spring – A Viking army under Hastein moves to a fortified camp at Benfleet (Essex). The Danish camp is captured by the Saxons, while the army is out raiding. Hastein is forced to retreat to Shoebury.^[4]
Summer – Battle of Buttington: A combined Welsh and Mercian army under Lord Æthelred besieges a Viking camp at Buttington in Wales. The Danes escape with heavy losses, and take their families to safety in East Anglia.^[5]
Autumn – Danish Vikings under Hastein take the city of Chester, after a rapid march from East Anglia. Alfred the Great destroys the food supplies, forcing them to move into Wales.^[6]
Asser, bishop of Sherborne, writes his Life of King Alfred in Wessex. He studies for 6 months each year in Alfred's household.

Spring – Caliph Al-Mu'tadid recognizes Khumarawayh as autonomous emir over Egypt and Syria, in exchange for an annual tribute of 300,000 dinars. The Jazira provinces of Diyar Rabi'a and Diyar Mudar are returned to the Abbasid Caliphate. Muslim forces recover direct control of Mosul (modern Iraq) from the Shayban.^[7]

March 23 – 893 Ardabil earthquake. Several earthquake catalogues and historical sources describe this earthquake as a destructive earthquake that struck the city of Ardabil, Iran. The magnitude is unknown, but the death toll was reported to be very large. The USGS, in their "List of Earthquakes with 50,000 or More Deaths", give an estimate that 150,000 were killed, which would make it the ninth deadliest earthquake in history.^[8]
December 28 – An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin in Armenia.

Council of Preslav: The Byzantine clergy is expelled from Bulgaria, and the Greek language is replaced with Old Bulgarian (also known as Old Church Slavonic), as an official language.
King Yasovarman I (called the Leper King) of the Khmer Empire (modern Cambodia) dedicates the Lolei Temple of the Roluos group to the god Shiva and the royal family.^[9]

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