1993

1993 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1993; MCMXCIII
Ab urbe condita	2746
Armenian calendar	1442; ԹՎ ՌՆԽԲ
Assyrian calendar	6743
Baháʼí calendar	149–150
Balinese saka calendar	1914–1915
Bengali calendar	1399–1400
Berber calendar	2943
British Regnal year	41 Eliz. 2 – 42 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2537
Burmese calendar	1355
Byzantine calendar	7501–7502
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey); 4690 or 4483; — to —; 癸酉年 (Water Rooster); 4691 or 4484
Coptic calendar	1709–1710
Discordian calendar	3159
Ethiopian calendar	1985–1986
Hebrew calendar	5753–5754
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2049–2050
- Shaka Samvat	1914–1915
- Kali Yuga	5093–5094
Holocene calendar	11993
Igbo calendar	993–994
Iranian calendar	1371–1372
Islamic calendar	1413–1414
Japanese calendar	Heisei 5; (平成５年)
Javanese calendar	1925–1926
Juche calendar	82
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4326
Minguo calendar	ROC 82; 民國82年
Nanakshahi calendar	525
Thai solar calendar	2536
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་; (male Water-Monkey); 2119 or 1738 or 966; — to —; ཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་; (female Water-Bird); 2120 or 1739 or 967
Unix time	725846400 – 757382399

From left to right, top to bottom:

Michael Jackson's alleged sexual abuse in his residence;
one of the Black Hawks above Mogadishu, then was shot down in the Battle of Mogadishu;
the great flood of 1993 took 50 lives;
The Burundian Civil War, an ethnic conflict between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority that began in 1993 after the assassination of the first democratically elected president, Melchior Ndadaye;
Pablo Escobar, dubbed the King of Cocaine, is shot by the Search Bloc; the team celebrates killing him;
a van bomb on the World Trade Center kills 6 and injures more than a thousand;
A big nor'easter, dubbed the Storm of the Century, affected the East Coast, though its impacts extended into Canada and Cuba. A total of 318 people were killed;
the Waco siege, a 51-day standoff between the Branch Davidians religious sect, led by David Koresh, and U.S. federal authorities; 86 are dead; this leads to Timothy McVeigh bombing a building 2 years later;
images of the Big Bayou Canot rail accident; an Amtrak passenger train derailed on a bridge that had been struck and partially dislodged by a barge eight minutes earlier. 47 people died and more than 100 were injured.

1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1993rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 993rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 93rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1990s decade.

The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its calendar advanced 24 hours to the Eastern Hemisphere side of the International Date Line, skipping August 21, 1993.