The world in 793 AD — what happened that year

9 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.

What happened

Dezong had the walls of Yanzhou rebuilt; after this, border incursions ceased. (Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals 舊唐書卷13 貞元9年)

The court sent Dainagon Fujiwara no Oguromaro and Sadaiben Ki no Kosami to survey the land of Uda village in Kadono district, Yamashiro, for the relocation of the capital (construction of the new palace begins). (Nihon Kōki (Later Chronicles of Japan) 日本後紀卷2)
Councilor Ichishino-ō and others were sent to inform the Kamo Great Deity of the relocation of the capital. (Nihon Kōki (Later Chronicles of Japan) 日本後紀卷2)
Officials of fifth rank and above, and chief clerks (shuden) of the offices and above, were ordered to supply labor (yakufu) to build the palace walls of the new capital. (Nihon Kōki (Later Chronicles of Japan) 日本後紀卷2)
Sugano no Mamichi and Fujiwara no Kadonomaro and others were sent to allocate residential lots in the new capital. (Nihon Kōki (Later Chronicles of Japan) 日本後紀卷2)

After ominous signs and famine, the heathens raided the church on Holy Island (Lindisfarne) and inflicted great damage. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Giles/Ingram 1847 A.D. 793 항 (pg657.txt 줄 2364))
Just as Charles is about to attack Pannonia again, news arrives that the army led by Count Theoderic through Frisia was intercepted by Saxons at the Hriustri district by the Weser and annihilated (Royal Frankish Annals ARF(Einhard판) a.793, Kurze 1895 p.93)
Between the Radantia and the Alemona river they begin digging a canal to link the Danube and the Rhine by boat and work all autumn, but rain and marsh make the earth dug by day slide back down at night, and the effort fails (Royal Frankish Annals ARF(Einhard판) a.793, Kurze 1895 p.93)
Saracens attack Septimania, fight with the border garrison and counts, kill many Franks, and return after a victory. With this news and news of a full-scale Saxon rebellion, Charles returns to Francia (Royal Frankish Annals ARF(Einhard판) a.793, Kurze 1895 p.95)

Places where the world territory data shows a change of borders in this year.