# 193 > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/193 > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/193.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/193 > Source revision: 1267067794 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) This article is about the year 193. For the number, see [193 (number)](/source/193_(number)). For other uses, see [193 (disambiguation)](/source/193_(disambiguation)). This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "193" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This was the [Year of the Five Emperors](/source/Year_of_the_Five_Emperors), in which there were five claimants for the title of Roman Emperor. The five were [Pertinax](/source/Pertinax), [Didius Julianus](/source/Didius_Julianus), [Pescennius Niger](/source/Pescennius_Niger), [Clodius Albinus](/source/Clodius_Albinus) and [Septimius Severus](/source/Septimius_Severus) (*pictured*). This year started a period of civil war where multiple rulers vied for the chance to become Caesar. Calendar year Years Millennium 1st millennium Centuries 1st century 2nd century 3rd century Decades 170s 180s 190s 200s 210s Years 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 v t e 193 by topic Leaders Political entities State leaders Categories Births Deaths Establishments v t e 193 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 193 CXCIII Ab urbe condita 946 Assyrian calendar 4943 Balinese saka calendar 114–115 Bengali calendar −401 – −400 Berber calendar 1143 Buddhist calendar 737 Burmese calendar −445 Byzantine calendar 5701–5702 Chinese calendar 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2890 or 2683 — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 2891 or 2684 Coptic calendar −91 – −90 Discordian calendar 1359 Ethiopian calendar 185–186 Hebrew calendar 3953–3954 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 249–250 - Shaka Samvat 114–115 - Kali Yuga 3293–3294 Holocene calendar 10193 Iranian calendar 429 BP – 428 BP Islamic calendar 442 BH – 441 BH Javanese calendar 70–71 Julian calendar 193 CXCIII Korean calendar 2526 Minguo calendar 1719 before ROC 民前1719年 Nanakshahi calendar −1275 Seleucid era 504/505 AG Thai solar calendar 735–736 Tibetan calendar ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Water-Monkey) 319 or −62 or −834 — to — ཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Water-Bird) 320 or −61 or −833 Year **193** (**[CXCIII](/source/Roman_numerals)**) was a [common year starting on Monday](/source/Common_year_starting_on_Monday) of the [Julian calendar](/source/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](/source/Ab_urbe_condita)***). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [Anno Domini](/source/Anno_Domini) [calendar era](/source/Calendar_era) became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. ## Events ### By place #### Roman Empire - [January 1](/source/January_1) – [Year of the Five Emperors](/source/Year_of_the_Five_Emperors): The [Roman Senate](/source/Roman_Senate) chooses [Publius Helvius Pertinax](/source/Pertinax), against his will, to succeed the late [Commodus](/source/Commodus) as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the [Roman army](/source/Roman_army), and to suspend the food programs established by [Trajan](/source/Trajan), provoking the ire of the [Praetorian Guard](/source/Praetorian_Guard). - [March 28](/source/March_28) – [Pertinax](/source/Pertinax) is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is [auctioned](/source/Auction) off; [Marcus Didius Julianus](/source/Didius_Julianus) the highest bidder, offers 300 million [sesterces](/source/Sestertius) for the throne. Roman governors [Clodius Albinus](/source/Clodius_Albinus) ([Britannia](/source/Britannia_(Roman_province))) and [Pescennius Niger](/source/Pescennius_Niger) ([Syria](/source/Syria)) claim, with support of their troops, the imperial throne. - [April 14](/source/April_14) – [Lucius Septimius Severus](/source/Septimius_Severus) is proclaimed Emperor by his troops at [Carnuntum](/source/Carnuntum), in [Pannonia Superior](/source/Pannonia_Superior) ([Balkans](/source/Balkans)). He marches with his army to [Rome](/source/Ancient_Rome). - [June 1](/source/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](/source/Roman_Empire), beginning the [Severan dynasty](/source/Severan_dynasty). - [Battle of Cyzicus](/source/Battle_of_Cyzicus_(193)) and [Battle of Nicaea](/source/Battle_of_Nicaea) ([Asia Minor](/source/Asia_Minor)): Septimius Severus defeats the army under Pescennius. - In Britain, [Clodius Albinus](/source/Clodius_Albinus) allies with Septimius Severus, and accepts the title of [Caesar](/source/Caesar_(title)). [British tribes](/source/Britons_(historical)) take advantage of the disorder in the Empire, and damage [Hadrian's Wall](/source/Hadrian's_Wall). Extensive repairs to the defence work is carried out by the [legionaries](/source/Legionary). - [Counterfeiting](/source/Counterfeiting) workshops begin to appear throughout the Roman Empire. - The Council of Rome, the pre-ecumenical council #### China - Last (4th) year of *[Chuping](/source/Chuping)* era of the Chinese [Han dynasty](/source/Han_dynasty). - [Cao Cao's invasion of Xu Province](/source/Cao_Cao's_invasion_of_Xu_Province): Cao Cao invades [Tao Qian](/source/Tao_Qian_(Han_dynasty))'s Xu Province, holding him responsible for the death of [Cao Song](/source/Cao_Song). ### By topic #### Commerce - The [silver](/source/Silver) content of the Roman [denarius](/source/Denarius) falls to 50 percent under emperor Septimius Severus, down from 68 percent under [Marcus Aurelius](/source/Marcus_Aurelius). ## Births - [Luo Tong](/source/Luo_Tong), Chinese official of the [Eastern Wu](/source/Eastern_Wu) state (d. [228](/source/228)) - [Zhang Wen](/source/Zhang_Wen_(Three_Kingdoms)), Chinese official of the Eastern Wu state (d. [230](/source/230)) ## Deaths - [March 28](/source/March_28) – [Pertinax](/source/Pertinax), Roman emperor (assassinated) (b. [126](/source/AD_126))[1] - [June 1](/source/June_1) – [Didius Julianus](/source/Didius_Julianus), Roman emperor (assassinated) - [Adrianus](/source/Adrianus) (or **Hadrian**), Greek [sophist](/source/Sophist), philosopher and writer - [Cao Song](/source/Cao_Song) (or **Jugao**), Chinese official and father of [Cao Cao](/source/Cao_Cao) - [Liu Yu](/source/Liu_Yu_(warlord)) (or **Bo'an**), Chinese [nobleman](/source/Nobility), official and warlord - [Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus](/source/Tiberius_Claudius_Pompeianus), Roman general and politician ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Meijer, Fik (2004). [*Emperors Don't Die in Bed*](https://books.google.com/books?id=3uN_AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA66). Routledge. p. 66. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-134-38405-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-134-38405-1). --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [193](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/193) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/193?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.