793
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This article is about the year 793. For the number (and other uses), see 793 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 760s 770s 780s – 790s – 800s 810s 820s |
| Years: | 790 791 792 – 793 – 794 795 796 |
| 793 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 793 DCCXCIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1546 |
| Armenian calendar | 242 ԹՎ ՄԽԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5543 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1051–-1050 |
| Bengali calendar | 200 |
| Berber calendar | 1743 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1337 |
| Burmese calendar | 155 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6301–6302 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬申年十二月十四日 (3429/3489-12-14) — to —
癸酉年十一月廿四日(3430/3490-11-24) |
| Coptic calendar | 509–510 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 785–786 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4553–4554 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 849–850 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 715–716 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3894–3895 |
| Holocene calendar | 10793 |
| Iranian calendar | 171–172 |
| Islamic calendar | 176–177 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 793 DCCXCIII |
| Korean calendar | 3126 |
| Minguo calendar | 1119 before ROC 民前1119年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1336 |
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Year 793 (DCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 793 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Europe
- June 8 – Vikings sack the monastery of Lindisfarne, Northumbria, their first major viking attack in England.
- The Frisian–Frankish wars came to an end with the last uprising of the Frisians in 793.
[edit] Asia
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- Offa of Mercia founds an abbey at St Albans.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Idriss I, founder of the Idrisid dynasty in the Maghreb al-Aqsa (nowadays Morocco).[1]
- February 22 – Sicga, Anglo-Saxon nobleman.
[edit] References
- ^ Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp.28.
