693

This article is about the year 693. For the number, see 693 (number).

Year 693 (DCXCIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 693 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	6th century 7th century 8th century
Decades:	670s 680s 690s 700s 710s
Years:	690 691 692 693 694 695 696

693 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	693 DCXCIII
Ab urbe condita	1446
Armenian calendar	142 ԹՎ ՃԽԲ
Assyrian calendar	5443
Balinese saka calendar	614–615
Bengali calendar	100
Berber calendar	1643
Buddhist calendar	1237
Burmese calendar	55
Byzantine calendar	6201–6202
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3390 or 3183     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3391 or 3184
Coptic calendar	409–410
Discordian calendar	1859
Ethiopian calendar	685–686
Hebrew calendar	4453–4454
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	749–750
- Shaka Samvat	614–615
- Kali Yuga	3793–3794
Holocene calendar	10693
Iranian calendar	71–72
Islamic calendar	73–74
Japanese calendar	Shuchō 8 (朱鳥８年)
Javanese calendar	585–586
Julian calendar	693 DCXCIII
Korean calendar	3026
Minguo calendar	1219 before ROC 民前1219年
Nanakshahi calendar	−775
Seleucid era	1004/1005 AG
Thai solar calendar	1235–1236
Tibetan calendar	阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 819 or 438 or −334     — to — 阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 820 or 439 or −333

Begga of Landen (615–693)

Events

Europe

• Sisebert, archbishop of Toledo, leads a rebellion against King Ergica of the Visigoths. He plans to assassinate Ergica and his wife Liuvigoto but fails, and is defrocked and excommunicated.
• April 25 – Sixteenth Council of Toledo: Ergica calls for a council of the church to deal with the security of the kingship. The rebels are anathematised and the Forum ludicum is modified.

Britain

• King Oshere of Hwicce (sub-kingdom of Mercia) dies after a 13-year reign. He is succeeded by his four sons as apparent joint-kings: Æthelberht, Æthelheard, Æthelweard and Æthelric.
• King Ine of Wessex establishes his West Saxon "Law of Codes", to regain authority in his kingdom. He consolidates Wessex's territory in the western peninsula (approximate date).

Central America

• May 31 – Kʼakʼ Tiliw Chan Chaak is installed as the new ruler of the Mayan city state of Naranjo in Guatemala at the age of 5-years-old, under the regency of his mother, Wak Chanil Ajaw (Lady Six Sky) of Dos Pilas, and reigns until his death in 720.

By topic

Religion

• Earconwald, bishop of London, dies and is succeeded by Waldhere. He is buried at St. Paul's Cathedral, and later revered as a saint.
• Wulfram of Sens attends the assembly of bishops at Valenciennes (Northern France).
• Callinicus I becomes the 71st patriarch of Constantinople, after Paul III.

Births

• Alfonso I, king of Asturias (approximate date)

Deaths

• Begga, Frankish abbess (b. 615)
• Bridei III, king of the Picts
• Earconwald, bishop of London
• Fáelchar ua Máele Ódrain, king of Osraige (Ireland)
• Oshere, king of Hwicce (Mercia)
• Paul III, patriarch of Constantinople

St Erkenwald, Saxon Prince, bishop and saint known as the "Light of London" died in this year

References

Sources

• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (third revised ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
• Kirby, D. P. (1992). The Earliest English Kings. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-09086-5.