793
Appearance
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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793 by topic |
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Leaders |
Categories |
Gregorian calendar | 793 DCCXCIII |
Ab urbe condita | 1546 |
Armenian calendar | 242 ԹՎ ՄԽԲ |
Assyrian calendar | 5543 |
Balinese saka calendar | 714–715 |
Bengali calendar | 200 |
Berber calendar | 1743 |
Buddhist calendar | 1337 |
Burmese calendar | 155 |
Byzantine calendar | 6301–6302 |
Chinese calendar | 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3490 or 3283 — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3491 or 3284 |
Coptic calendar | 509–510 |
Discordian calendar | 1959 |
Ethiopian calendar | 785–786 |
Hebrew calendar | 4553–4554 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 849–850 |
- Shaka Samvat | 714–715 |
- Kali Yuga | 3893–3894 |
Holocene calendar | 10793 |
Iranian calendar | 171–172 |
Islamic calendar | 176–177 |
Japanese calendar | Enryaku 12 (延暦12年) |
Javanese calendar | 688–689 |
Julian calendar | 793 DCCXCIII |
Korean calendar | 3126 |
Minguo calendar | 1119 before ROC 民前1119年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −675 |
Seleucid era | 1104/1105 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1335–1336 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 919 or 538 or −234 — to — 阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 920 or 539 or −233 |
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
Continental Europe
- King Charlemagne give orders to dig a 3 kilometers long channel from Treuchtlingen to Weißenburg (the Rhine and Danube river basins); to improve the transportation of goods between the Rhineland and Bavaria. Charlemagne's son Pepin of Italy, campaigns the Lombards in Benevento (Southern Italy).[1]
- Frisian–Frankish War: Count Theoderic is sent to Frisia to muster troops for another offensive against the Avar Khaganate. He is attacked and probably killed by Saxon rebels near the mouth of the river Weser. The Frisians revolt and Charlemagne deports Saxon families from north of the river Elbe.[2]
Britain
- June 8 – Vikings raid the Northumbrian coast, arriving in long ships from modern-day Norway and sacking the monastery of Lindisfarne. Many of the monks are killed, in this first recorded Viking attack on what is now England.
Arabian Empire
- Emir Hisham I of Córdoba, calles for a jihad ("Holy War") against the Christian Franks. He assembles an army of 100,000 men, half of which attacks the Kingdom of Asturias while the other half invades Languedoc, penetrating as far as Narbonne.
By topic
Commerce
- Arab traders make Baghdad a financial center of the Silk Road between China and Europe. Caravans carry little or no money on their long journeys; Chinese traders use what they call fei qian ("flying money") to avoid robbery. The Arabs has adopt a similar banking system known as hawala to transmit funds (approximate date).
Religion
- King Offa of Mercia founds an abbey at St. Albans.
Births
- Arnulf of Sens, Frankish nobleman (or 794)
- Li Ning, prince of the Tang Dynasty (d. 812)
- Theophylact, Byzantine co-emperor (approximate date)
- Wu Yuanji, general of the Tang Dynasty (or 783)
Deaths
- Idriss I, Muslim emir and founder of the Idrisid Dynasty (or 791)[3]
- February 22 – Sicga, Anglo-Saxon nobleman
References
- ^ David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 20. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5
- ^ David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 80. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5
- ^ Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658–1518). Paris: La Découverte. p. 28.