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

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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.

    • Asia

  • May 26 – An earthquake in Kamakura, Japan kills an estimated 23,000.
  • The Japanese era Shōō ends, and the Einin era begins.
  • Khubilai sends a fleet to the islands of Southeast Asia, including Java.
  • 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.

    • Europe

  • Torkel Knutsson leads Sweden in beginning the Third Swedish Crusade against unchristianized Finnish Karelia.
  • Enactment of the Ordinances of Justice in the Commune of Florence.
  • The Isle of Wight is sold to King Edward I of England by Isabella de Forz, Countess of Devon for six thousand marks.

    • Arts and culture

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

    • Education

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

    • Births

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

    • Deaths

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

    • References

    1293 Wikipedia
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