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

Events

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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.

Asia

• May 26 An earthquake in Kamakura, Japan kills an estimated 23,000.

• 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.

• Kublai Khan 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. In the same year, the construction of Vyborg Castle begins, by orders of Knutsson.

• The Ordinances of Justice are enacted in the Commune of Florence.

• The Isle of Wight is sold to King Edward I of England by Isabella de Forz, Countess of Devon, on her deathbed, for 6,000 marks.

By topic

Arts and culture

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

Education

• May 20 King Sancho IV of Castile creates a Studium General in Alcalá de Henares, forerunner to the modern Complutense University of Madrid.

Religion

• January Ignatius bar Wahib becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Mardin.</onlyinclude>

Births

• October 12 Margaret de Clare, English noblewoman (d. 1342)

• Felim McHugh O'Connor (Feidhlimid Ó Conchobair), Irish King of Connacht (d. 1316)

• Philip VI of France (d. 1350)

• c.1293–94 John of Ruysbroeck, Brabantian mystic (d. 1381)

Deaths

• May 2 Meir of Rothenburg, German rabbi (b. c.1215)

• June 29 Henry of Ghent, philosopher (b. c.1217)

• November 10 Isabel de Forz, 8th Countess of Devon (b. 1237)

• December 14 Al-Ashraf Khalil, Mamluk sultan of Egypt (assassinated)

• David VI Narin, King of Georgia (b. 1225)

• Approximate date William of Rubruck, Flemish Franciscan missionary (b. c.1220)

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