793

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

793 in other calendars

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
Korean calendar	3126
Minguo calendar	1119 before ROC 民前1119年
Thai solar calendar	1336

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.

Events

By place

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.

Asia

• A jihad under Hisham I takes place.

By topic

Religion

• Offa of Mercia founds an abbey at St Albans.

Births

• February 22 – Sicga, Anglo-Saxon nobleman

Deaths

• Idriss I, founder of the Idrisid dynasty in the Maghreb al-Aqsa (nowadays Morocco).