793

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
Bengali calendar	200
Berber calendar	1743
Buddhist calendar	1337
Burmese calendar	155
Byzantine calendar	6301–6302
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3489 or 3429     — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3490 or 3430
Coptic calendar	509–510
Discordian calendar	1959
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	Enryaku 12 (延暦１２年)
Julian calendar	793 DCCXCIII
Korean calendar	3126
Minguo calendar	1119 before ROC 民前1119年
Seleucid era	1104/1105 AG
Thai solar calendar	1335–1336

Ruins of Lindisfarne Abbey and St. Marys

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

• 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 raiders attack 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, calls 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 have adopted 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)
• Wei Mo, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 858)
• Wu Yuanji, general of the Tang Dynasty (or 783)
• Zhou Chi, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 851)

Deaths

• Idriss I, Muslim emir and founder of the Idrisid Dynasty (or 791)^[3]
• February 22 – Sicga, Anglo-Saxon nobleman

References

1. David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 20. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5
2. David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, p. 80. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5
3. Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658–1518). Paris: La Découverte. p. 28.