1293
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1260s 1270s 1280s – 1290s – 1300s 1310s 1320s |
| Years: | 1290 1291 1292 – 1293 – 1294 1295 1296 |
| 1293 by topic | |
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| 1293 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1293 MCCXCIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2046 |
| Armenian calendar | 742 ԹՎ ՉԽԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6043 |
| 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 | 1215–1216 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4394–4395 |
| 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) |
| Julian calendar | 1293 MCCXCIII |
| Korean calendar | 3626 |
| Minguo calendar | 619 before ROC 民前619年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1835–1836 |
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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)