Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''

Ab urbe condita ''Ab urbe condita'' ( 'from the founding of the City'), or ''anno urbis conditae'' (; 'in the year since the city's founding'), abbreviated as AUC or AVC, expresses a date in years since 753 BC, the traditional founding of Rome. It is an exp ...

''). The denomination 193 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

Roman Empire

* January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late

Commodus Commodus (; 31 August 161 – 31 December 192) was a Roman emperor who ruled from 177 to 192. He served jointly with his father Marcus Aurelius from 176 until the latter's death in 180, and thereafter he reigned alone until his assassination. ...

as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the

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, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off; Marcus Didius Julianus the highest bidder, offers 300 million

sesterces The ''sestertius'' (plural ''sestertii''), or sesterce (plural sesterces), was an ancient Roman coin. During the Roman Republic it was a small, silver coin issued only on rare occasions. During the Roman Empire it was a large brass coin. The na ...

for the throne. Roman governors Clodius Albinus ( Britannia) and

Pescennius Niger Gaius Pescennius Niger (c. 135 – 194) was Roman Emperor from 193 to 194 during the Year of the Five Emperors. He claimed the imperial throne in response to the murder of Pertinax and the elevation of Didius Julianus, but was defeated by a riva ...

(

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

) claim, with support of their troops, the imperial throne. * April 14 –

Lucius Septimius Severus Lucius Septimius Severus (; 11 April 145 – 4 February 211) was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna (present-day Al-Khums, Libya) in the Roman province of Africa (Roman province), Africa. As a young man he advanced thro ...

is proclaimed Emperor by his troops at Carnuntum, in Pannonia Superior ( Balkans). He marches with his army to Rome. * June 1 – Septimius Severus enters the capital, and has Julianus put to death. He replaces the Praetorian Guard with a 15,000-man force from the Danubian legions, and gains control of the Roman Empire, beginning the Severan dynasty. * Battle of Cyzicus and Battle of Nicaea ( Asia Minor): Septimius Severus defeats the army under Pescennius. * In Britain, Clodius Albinus allies with Septimius Severus, and accepts the title of

Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman people, Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in Caes ...

. Britons (historical), British tribes take advantage of the disorder in the Empire, and damage Hadrian's Wall. Extensive repairs to the defence work is carried out by the Legionary, legionaries. * Counterfeiting workshops begin to appear throughout the Roman Empire.

China

* Last (4th) year of ''Chuping'' era of the Chinese Han dynasty. * Cao Cao's invasion of Xu Province: Cao Cao invades Tao Qian (Han dynasty), Tao Qian's Xu Province, holding him responsible for the death of Cao Song.

By topic

Commerce

* The silver content of the Roman denarius falls to 50 percent under emperor Septimius Severus, down from 68 percent under Marcus Aurelius.

Births

* Luo Tong, Chinese official of the Eastern Wu state (d. 228) * Zhang Wen (Three Kingdoms), Zhang Wen, Chinese official of the Eastern Wu state (d. 230)

Deaths

* March 28 – Pertinax, Roman emperor (assassinated) (b. AD 126, 126) * June 1 – Didius Julianus, Roman emperor (assassinated) * Adrianus (or Hadrian), Greek sophist, philosopher and writer * Cao Song (or Jugao), Chinese official and father of Cao Cao * Liu Yu (warlord), Liu Yu (or Bo'an), Chinese Nobility, nobleman, official and warlord * Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus, Roman general and politician

References

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