893

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893 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 893
DCCCXCIII
Ab urbe condita 1646
Armenian calendar 342
ԹՎ ՅԽԲ
Assyrian calendar 5643
Balinese saka calendar 814–815
Bengali calendar 299–300
Berber calendar 1843
Buddhist calendar 1437
Burmese calendar 255
Byzantine calendar 6401–6402
Chinese calendar 壬子年 (Water  Rat)
3590 or 3383
     to 
癸丑年 (Water  Ox)
3591 or 3384
Coptic calendar 609–610
Discordian calendar 2059
Ethiopian calendar 885–886
Hebrew calendar 4653–4654
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 949–950
 - Shaka Samvat 814–815
 - Kali Yuga 3993–3994
Holocene calendar 10893
Iranian calendar 271–272
Islamic calendar 279–280
Japanese calendar Kanpyō 5
(寛平5年)
Javanese calendar 791–792
Julian calendar 893
DCCCXCIII
Korean calendar 3226
Minguo calendar 1019 before ROC
民前1019年
Nanakshahi calendar −575
Seleucid era 1204/1205 AG
Thai solar calendar 1435–1436
Tibetan calendar 阳水鼠年
(male Water-Rat)
1019 or 638 or −134
     to 
阴水牛年
(female Water-Ox)
1020 or 639 or −133

Year 893 ( DCCCXCIII ) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Events

By place

Europe

Britain

Arabian Empire

Eurasia

  • March 23 893 Ardabil earthquake. Several earthquake catalogues and historical sources describe this earthquake as a destructive earthquake that struck the city of Ardabil, Iran. The magnitude is unknown, but the death toll was reported to be very large. The USGS, in their "List of Earthquakes with 50,000 or More Deaths", give an estimate that 150,000 were killed, which would make it the ninth deadliest earthquake in history. [8]
  • December 28 An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin in Armenia.

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References

  1. Fine, John V. A. Jr. (1991) [1983]. The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 130. ISBN   0-472-08149-7.
  2. Michel Parisse, "Lotharingia", The New Cambridge Medieval History, III: c. 900–c. 1024, ed. Timothy Reuter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 313–315.
  3. Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, pp. 124–125. ISBN   978-1-59416-087-5.
  4. John Haywood (1995). Historical Atlas of the Vikings, pp. 66–67. ISBN   978-0-140-51328-8.
  5. Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, pp. 128–130. ISBN   978-1-59416-087-5.
  6. John Haywood (1995). Historical Atlas of the Vikings, pp. 66–67. ISBN   978-0-140-51328-8.
  7. Bianquis 1998, pp. 105–106.
  8. "Earthquakes with 50,000 or More Deaths". Earthquake.usgs.gov. Archived from the original on September 1, 2009. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
  9. Coedès, George (1968). Walter F. Vella (ed.). The Indianized States of Southeast Asia. trans.Susan Brown Cowing. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN   978-0-8248-0368-1.

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