1293

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

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1270s 1280s 1290s 1300s 1310s
Years:	1290 1291 1292 1293 1294 1295 1296

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	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) 3989 or 3929     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3990 or 3930
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	阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 1419 or 1038 or 266     — to — 阴水蛇年 (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]
• Khubilai 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]
• The Ordinances of Justice are enacted in the Commune of Florence.[7]
• The Isle of Wight is sold to King Edward I of England by Isabella de Forz, Countess of Devon, for 6,000 marks.[8]

By topic

Arts and culture

• Dante Alighieri completes the book of verse La Vita Nuova.[9]

Education

• May 20 – King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Studium General, forerunner to the modern Complutense University of Madrid.[10]

Religion

• January – Ignatius bar Wahib becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Mardin.[11]

Births

• Margaret de Clare, English noblewoman (d. 1342)[12]
• Fedlim Ó Conchobair, King of Connacht (d. 1316)[13]
• Philip V of France (d. 1322)[14]
• Philip VI of France (d. 1350)[15]
• John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic (approximate date; d. 1381)[16]
• Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland (d. 1326)[17]

Deaths

• May 2 – Meir of Rothenburg, German rabbi (b. c.1215)[18]
• June 29 – Henry of Ghent, philosopher (b. c.1217)[19]
• November 10 – Isabella de Forz, Countess of Devon (b. 1237)[20]
• December 14 – Al-Ashraf Khalil, Mamluk sultan of Egypt (assassinated)[21]
• date unknown
  • David VI Narin, King of Georgia (b. 1225)[22]
  • William of Rubruck, Flemish Franciscan missionary (approximate date; b. c.1220)[23]

References

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2. Hattori, J. (April 4, 1878). "Destructive Earthquakes of Japan". The Japan Mail: A fortnightly summary of intelligence from Japan, for transmission to Europe and the United States, via Suez and San Francisco. p. 178. Retrieved February 24, 2019.
3. Nagayama, Kōkan (1997) [1995]. The Connoisseur's Book of Japanese Swords. Tokyo, New York, London: Kodansha International. p. 164. ISBN 9784770020710.
4. Minahan, James (2012). Ethnic Groups of South Asia and the Pacific: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA, Denver, CO, Oxford: ABC-CLIO. p. 109. ISBN 9781598846591.
5. Ooi, Keat Gin (2004). Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor. Santa Barbara, CA, Denver, CO, Oxford: ABC-CLIO. pp. 822–824. ISBN 9781576077702.
6. Goss, Glenda Dawn (2009). Sibelius: A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland. Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press. p. 152. ISBN 9780226304793.
7. Pugh Rupp, Teresa (2008). ""If You Want Peace, Work for Justice": Dino Compagni's Cronica and the Ordinances of Justice". In Peterson, David S.; Bornstein, Daniel E. (eds.). Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance Italy : Essays in Honour of John M. Najemy. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. p. 323. ISBN 9780772720382.
8. Adams, William Henry Davenport (1856). The History, Topography, and Antiquities of the Isle of Wight. Described and Illustrated. [With Plates and a Map.]. London: Smith, Elder & Company. pp. 18–19.
9. Spinozzi, Paola (2009). "Journeying Through Translation: Dante among the Victorians, Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Medieval Italy". In Orestano, Francesca; Frigerio, Francesca (eds.). Strange Sisters: Literature and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang. p. 77. ISBN 9783039118403.
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11. Barsoum, Ephrem (2008). History of the Za‘faran Monastery. Translated by Matti Moosa. Gorgias Press. p. 48.
12. Hammond, Peter; Cokayne, George Edward (1998). The complete peerage, or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times by G.E.C., revised and much enlarged : addenda & corrigenda. XIV. Sutton. ISBN 9780750901543.
13. Byrne, Vincent (2003). The Hidden Annals: A Thousand Years of the Kingdom of Connaught 366-1385. Universal-Publishers. ISBN 9781581125689.
14. Wood, Cindy (2016). Studying Late Medieval History: A Thematic Approach. London and New York: Routledge. p. 58. ISBN 9781317211204.
15. Nolan, Cathal J. (2006). The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000-1650: An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization. 2. Westport, CN and London: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 893. ISBN 9780313337345.
16. Jr, Eugene F. Rogers (2009). "John Ruusbroec, from The Spiritual Espousals". The Holy Spirit: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Chicester and Singapore: John Wiley & Sons. p. 272. ISBN 9781405136235.
17. Browning, Charles Henry (1998) [1883]. "Pedigree LX". Americans of Royal Descent: Collection of Genealogies Showing the Lineal Descent from Kings of Some American Families. Reproduced from Recognized Authorative Genealogical Works, From Printed Family Histories, and Verified Information Supplied in Manuscript Pedigrees (Seventh ed.). Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Com. p. 261. ISBN 9780806300542.
18. Kanarfogel, Ephraim (2000). Peering Through the Lattices: Mystical, Magical, and Pietistic Dimensions in the Tosafist Period. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. p. 221. ISBN 9780814325315.
19. Stone, M. W. F. (2003). "Henry of Ghent on Freedom and Human Action". In Decorte, Jos; Guldentops, Guy; Steel, Carlos G. (eds.). Henry of Ghent and the Transformation of Scholastic Thought: Studies in Memory of Jos Decorte. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press. p. 201. ISBN 9789058673299.
20. Legg, Katrina (2004). Bolton Priory: Its Patrons and Benefactors 1120-1293. Borthwick Papers. 106. York: Borthwick Publications. p. 11. ISBN 9781904497134.
21. Haag, Michael (2012). The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States. Suffolk: Profile. pp. 241. ISBN 9781847658548. 1293 Al-Ashraf Khalil.
22. Montpéreux, Frédéric Dubois de (1839). Voyage autour du Caucase, chez les Tcherkesses et les Abkhases, en Colchide, en Géorgie, en Arménie et en Crimée (in French). II. Paris: Librairie de Gide. p. 164.
23. Ruysbroeck, Willem van; Pian de Carpine, John of (1998) [1900]. The Journey of William of Rubruck to the Eastern Parts of the World, 1253-55: As Narrated by Himself with Two Accounts of the Earlier Journey of John of Pian de Carpine. Translated by Woodville Rockhill, William. New Delhi, Madras: Asian Educational Services. ISBN 9788120613386.