// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was 793 a bad date? It was an odd number.

793 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	793 DCCXCIII
Ab urbe condita	1546
Armenian calendar	242 ԹՎ ՄԽԲ
Assyrian calendar	5543
Balinese saka calendar	714–715
Bengali calendar	199–200
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	ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Water-Monkey) 919 or 538 or −234     — to — ཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Water-Bird) 920 or 539 or −233

Ruins of Lindisfarne Abbey and St. Marys

Year 793 (DCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday 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 orders a 3 kilometre long channel dug 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 against the Lombards in Benevento (Southern Italy).
• 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 Weser River. The Frisians revolt, and Charlemagne deports Saxon families from north of the river Elbe.

Britain

• June 8 – Viking raiders attack the Northumbrian coast, arriving in longships from either Denmark or Norway, and sacking the monastery of Lindisfarne. Many of the monks are killed or enslaved. It is the first Viking attack on a monastery in the British Isles, although it is not the first known Viking attack in the British Isles. The first attack came in 789, when Vikings raided the settlement of Portland in Dorset.

Arabian Empire

• Emir Hisham I of Córdoba calls for a jihad ("Holy War") against the Christian Franks. He assembles an army of 70,000 men, half of which attacks the Kingdom of Asturias, destroying its capital, Oviedo, while the other half invades Languedoc, penetrating as far as Narbonne. After capturing the city, the contingent moves towards Carcassonne and conquers it too. Both armies return to Córdoba enriched with the spoils of war.

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 (zh) ("flying money") to avoid robbery. The Arabs have adopted a similar banking system known as hawala to transmit funds (approximate date).

Religion

• August 17 – Quriaqos of Tagrit is consecrated Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch at Harran.
• 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

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