1093

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The year 1093 is a common year starting on a Saturday.

Events

Asia
Spring: Zachas, Emir of Smyrna, makes the siege of Abydos but must lift him up against Constantin Dalassène. His son-in-law Kilitch Arslan, allied with Byzantine emperor Alexis Comnène, invited him to a banquet and stabbed him with his own hand. Zachas's son succeeded him until 1097.
Fall: Death of Regent Gao in China. Emperor Song Zhezong recalls the Reformers.

Europe
Epidemic plague in Artois.
6 March: Anselm, Abbé du Bec, was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. He fought with William II the Roux about the inauguration of the members of the church conferred by the king. He was to be exiled to Italy (1095).
Spring:
The Cid begins the siege of Valencia after setting up its camp in Mestalla.
Byzantine General Manuel Boutoumitès suppresses the revolt of the governor of Cyprus Rapsomates.
13 April: beginning of the reign of Sviatopolk II, son of Iziaslav, prince of Kiev (end 1113).
May 26: Couman victory over Kyivians Sviatopolk II and Vladimir II Monomacus at the Battle of the Stugna River.
Spring or summer: after Emperor Henry IV was expelled from Italy in 1092, his son Conrad joined the revolt of Mathilde of Tuscany and her husband, Duke Welf, who had concluded for twenty years a defensive and offensive alliance against the emperor with the cities of Milan, Lodi, Cremona and Plaisance, which foreshadowed the future Lombard League. Conrad was crowned king of Italy in Monza and then in Milan by the Archbishop of Milan Anselme de Rhaude. Pope Urban II takes up Rome where he celebrates Christmas at the end of the year. Conrad married Constance, a daughter of Roger of Sicily, in Pisa in 1095
July: The Cid takes the castle of Juballa (Cebola) besieged for eight months and walks on Valencia. It takes the suburbs of Villanueva and Alcúdia. Cadi Ibn Yahhaf, master of the city, negotiates peace and renounces the alliance with the Almoravids.
22 September: The reign of Magnus III Barfot, king of Norway at the death of Olaf Kyrre (end 1103). Magnus with bare legs, (he had adopted the Scottish kilt) plunders the Hebrides, the Isles of Man and the Isles of Anglesey. He fought against the king of Sweden, whose daughter, Margrete, he nevertheless married.
13 October: Robert II (1065-1111) became Count of Flanders on the death of his father Robert the Frison.
13 November: Battle of Alnwick between Malcolm III of Scotland and William II of England. Malcolm was killed and his brother Donald III Ban became king of Scotland (end of reign in 1098).

Henri de Bourgogne married Thérèse de León, daughter of Alphonse VI de Castille, who received the county of Portugal in dowry.
The Serbian prince of Rascie Vukan takes and fire Lipljan, Byzantine city.

Births in 1093

Death in 1093

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