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Year 1293 was a common year starting on Thursday ¹ (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1293

• May 20 - King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Studium General, forerunner to the modern Complutense University of Madrid.
• May 26 - An earthquake in Kamakura, Japan kills an estimated 30,000.
• 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.

Undated

• Torkel Knutsson leads Sweden in beginning the Third Swedish Crusade against unchristianized Finnish Karelia.
• Dante Alighieri completes the book of verse La Vita Nuova.
• Khubilai sends a fleet to the islands of Southeast Asia, including Java.
• The Hindu Majapahit Empire of the Malay archipelago is founded by Kertarajasa, who exploits internal conflict and Mongol intervention to defeat the Singhasari kingdom and establish the empire.
• The Japanese era Shōō ends, and the Einin era begins.
• Enactment of the Ordinances of Justice in the Commune of Florence.

Births

• Margaret de Clare, English noblewoman (d. 1342)
• Felim mac Aedh Ua 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)

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Deaths

• May 2 - Meir of Rothenburg, German rabbi (b. c. 1215)
• Henry of Ghent, philosopher (b. c. 1217)
• Khalil, Mamluk sultan of Egypt
• David VI Narin, King of Georgia (b. 1225)
• Dmitri of Pereslavl, Grand Duke of Vladimir-Suzdal
• William of Rubruck, Franciscan missionary (approximate date; b. c. 1220)

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Notes

1. ^ "Calendar - Portugal - 1293" (Julian calendar), Time and Date AS / Steffen Thorsen, 2008, webpage: TimeandDate-calendar-1293-Portugal.