1293

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

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.

Asia

• May 26 – An earthquake in Kamakura, Japan kills an estimated 30,000.
• 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.

By topic

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)

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