972

This article is about the year 972. For other uses, see 972 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	940s  950s  960s  – 970s –  980s  990s  1000s
Years:	969 970 971 – 972 – 973 974 975

972 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

972 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	972 CMLXXII
Ab urbe condita	1725
Armenian calendar	421 ԹՎ ՆԻԱ
Assyrian calendar	5722
Bengali calendar	379
Berber calendar	1922
Buddhist calendar	1516
Burmese calendar	334
Byzantine calendar	6480–6481
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 3668 or 3608     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3669 or 3609
Coptic calendar	688–689
Discordian calendar	2138
Ethiopian calendar	964–965
Hebrew calendar	4732–4733
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1028–1029
- Shaka Samvat	894–895
- Kali Yuga	4073–4074
Holocene calendar	10972
Iranian calendar	350–351
Islamic calendar	361–362
Japanese calendar	Tenroku 3 (天禄３年)
Julian calendar	972 CMLXXII
Korean calendar	3305
Minguo calendar	940 before ROC 民前940年
Seleucid era	1283/1284 AG
Thai solar calendar	1514–1515

Year 972 (CMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• The city of Satu Mare, Romania is founded.

HRR territory in 972, red line)

• Otto II marries Theophanu, Byzantine princess.
• Battle of Cedynia: Polish duke Mieszko I defeats the Germans.
• Boleslaus II the Pious succeeds Boleslav I in Bohemia.
• The monastery at the site of Peterborough Cathedral is rebuilt.
• Emperor John Tzimisces makes eastern Bulgaria a Byzantine dependency.
• A battle between Estonian and Icelandic Vikings in Saaremaa is described in Njál's saga.
• Yaropolk of Kiev succeeds Sviatoslav I in Kiev.

Africa

• Buluggin ibn Ziri is appointed viceroy in Ifriqiya, starting the Zirid Dynasty.

By topic

Religion

• Pope Benedict VI succeeds Pope John XIII as pope.
• Saint Eadburga is canonized.

Births

• March 27 – King Robert II of France (d. 1031)
• Al-Mawardi
• Ermesinde of Carcassonne, countess and regent of Barcelona (d. 1057)
• Fujiwara no Yukinari
• Fulk III of Anjou
• Pope Gregory V
• Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
• Renauld I, Count of Nevers

Deaths

• July 15 – Boleslav I of Bohemia
• September 6 – Pope John XIII
• Liutprand, bishop of Cremona and historian
• Sviatoslav I, Prince of Kiev
• Kuya, Japanese monk of Pure Land Buddhism (b. 903).