1293

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

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, for 6,000 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.

Religion

 * January – Ignatius bar Wahib becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Mardin.

Births

 * John of Ruysbroeck, Brabantian mystic (approximate date; d. 1381)
 * 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)
 * 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, Flemish Franciscan missionary (approximate date; b. c.1220)