Events of 1293

• May 20 – King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Studium General, forerunner to the modern Complutense University of Madrid.

• May 26 – An earthquake in Kamakura, Japan kills an estimated 30,000.

• December – Mamluk sultan of Egypt Khalil is assassinated by his regent Baydara, who briefly claims the sultanate before being assassinated himself by a rival political faction.

Undated

• Torkel Knutsson leads Sweden in beginning the Third Swedish Crusade against unchristianized Finnish Karelia.

• Dante Alighieri completes the book of verse La Vita Nuova.

• Khubilai sends a fleet to the islands of Southeast Asia, including Java.

• The Hindu Majapahit Empire of the Malay archipelago is founded by Kertarajasa, who exploits internal conflict and Mongol intervention to defeat the Singhasari kingdom and establish the empire.

• The Japanese era Shōō ends, and the Einin era begins.

• Enactment of the Ordinances of Justice in the Commune of Florence.

Births

• Margaret de Clare, English noblewoman (d. 1342)

• Felim mac Aedh Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht (d. 1316)

• Philip V of France (d. 1322)

• Philip VI of France (d. 1350)

• John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic (approximate date; d. 1381)

• Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland (d. 1326)

Deaths

• May 2 – Meir of Rothenburg, German rabbi (b. c. 1215)

• Henry of Ghent, philosopher (b. c. 1217)

• Khalil, Mamluk sultan of Egypt

• David VI Narin, King of Georgia (b. 1225)

• Dmitri of Pereslavl, Grand Duke of Vladimir-Suzdal

• William of Rubruck, Franciscan missionary (approximate date; b. c. 1220)