1293

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 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.

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.

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)

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