Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
893 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar893
DCCCXCIII
Ab urbe condita1646
Armenian calendar342
ԹՎ ՅԽԲ
Assyrian calendar5643
Balinese saka calendar814–815
Bengali calendar300
Berber calendar1843
Buddhist calendar1437
Burmese calendar255
Byzantine calendar6401–6402
Chinese calendar壬子年 (Water Rat)
3590 or 3383
     to 
癸丑年 (Water Ox)
3591 or 3384
Coptic calendar609–610
Discordian calendar2059
Ethiopian calendar885–886
Hebrew calendar4653–4654
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat949–950
 - Shaka Samvat814–815
 - Kali Yuga3993–3994
Holocene calendar10893
Iranian calendar271–272
Islamic calendar279–280
Japanese calendarKanpyō 5
(寛平5年)
Javanese calendar791–792
Julian calendar893
DCCCXCIII
Korean calendar3226
Minguo calendar1019 before ROC
民前1019年
Nanakshahi calendar−575
Seleucid era1204/1205 AG
Thai solar calendar1435–1436
Tibetan calendar阳水鼠年
(male Water-Rat)
1019 or 638 or −134
     to 
阴水牛年
(female Water-Ox)
1020 or 639 or −133

Year 893 (DCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

Britain

Arabian Empire

Eurasia

  • March 23 893 Ardabil earthquake. Several earthquake catalogues and historical sources describe this earthquake as a destructive earthquake that struck the city of Ardabil, Iran. The magnitude is unknown, but the death toll was reported to be very large. The USGS, in their "List of Earthquakes with 50,000 or More Deaths", give an estimate that 150,000 were killed, which would make it the ninth deadliest earthquake in history.[8]
  • December 28 An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin in Armenia.

By topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Fine, John V. A. Jr. (1991) [1983]. The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 130. ISBN 0-472-08149-7.
  2. Michel Parisse, "Lotharingia", The New Cambridge Medieval History, III: c. 900–c. 1024, ed. Timothy Reuter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 313–315.
  3. Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, pp. 124–125. ISBN 978-1-59416-087-5.
  4. John Haywood (1995). Historical Atlas of the Vikings, pp. 66–67. ISBN 978-0-140-51328-8.
  5. Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, pp. 128–130. ISBN 978-1-59416-087-5.
  6. John Haywood (1995). Historical Atlas of the Vikings, pp. 66–67. ISBN 978-0-140-51328-8.
  7. Bianquis 1998, pp. 105–106.
  8. "Earthquakes with 50,000 or More Deaths". Earthquake.usgs.gov. Archived from the original on September 1, 2009. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
  9. Coedès, George (1968). Walter F. Vella (ed.). The Indianized States of Southeast Asia. trans.Susan Brown Cowing. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-0368-1.

Sources

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