772

Year 772 (DCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 772 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.

772 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	772 DCCLXXII
Ab urbe condita	1525
Armenian calendar	221 ԹՎ ՄԻԱ
Assyrian calendar	5522
Balinese saka calendar	693–694
Bengali calendar	178–179
Berber calendar	1722
Buddhist calendar	1316
Burmese calendar	134
Byzantine calendar	6280–6281
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 3469 or 3262     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 3470 or 3263
Coptic calendar	488–489
Discordian calendar	1938
Ethiopian calendar	764–765
Hebrew calendar	4532–4533
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	828–829
- Shaka Samvat	693–694
- Kali Yuga	3872–3873
Holocene calendar	10772
Iranian calendar	150–151
Islamic calendar	155–156
Japanese calendar	Hōki 3 (宝亀３年)
Javanese calendar	666–667
Julian calendar	772 DCCLXXII
Korean calendar	3105
Minguo calendar	1140 before ROC 民前1140年
Nanakshahi calendar	−696
Seleucid era	1083/1084 AG
Thai solar calendar	1314–1315
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Boar) 898 or 517 or −255     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 899 or 518 or −254

Charlemagne and pope Adrian I (772–795)

Events

By place

Europe

• Saxon Wars: King Charlemagne leads a Frankish expedition from the Middle Rhine into disputed territory lost by the Franks in 695. He starts a campaign against the Saxons and seizes Eresburg, destroying the Irminsul (Saxon sacred tree) near Paderborn. Charlemagne devastates several major Saxon strongholds, and forces them to retreat beyond the Weser River. After negotiating with some Saxon nobles and obtaining hostages, he installs a number of garrisons.^[1]
• King Desiderius of the Lombards, enraged by the repudiation by Charlemagne of his daughter Desiderata, proclaims Gerberga's sons lawful heirs to the Frankish throne. He attacks Pope Adrian I for refusing to crown them, and invades the Duchy of the Pentapolis. Desiderius marches on Rome, and Adrian turns to the Franks for military support.
• In England, King Offa of Mercia attempts to rule Kent directly, possibly to depose his rival Egbert II (approximate date).

Asia

• Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur completes construction of the garrison city of al-Rāfiqah adjacent to Raqqa.

By topic

Religion

• February 1 – Pope Stephen III dies after a 3½-year reign, in which he has approved the acceptable reverence of icons in the Eastern Church. He is succeeded by Adrian I (also referred to as Hadrian) as the 95th pope of Rome.

Births

• Bai Ju Yi, Chinese poet and official (d. 846)^[2]
• Cui Qun, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 832)
• Cui Zhi, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 829)
• Li Ao, Chinese philosopher and prose writer (d. 841)
• Liu Yuxi, Chinese poet and philosopher (d. 842)
• probable
  • Charles the Younger, son of Charlemagne (d. 811)

Deaths

• February 1 – Pope Stephen III^[3]
• May 13 – Dōkyō, Japanese Buddhist monk (b. 700)
• July 10 – Amalberga of Temse, Lotharingian nun and saint (b. 741)^[4]
• date unknown
  • Dúngal mac Cellaig, king of Osraige (Ireland)
  • Yuan Jie, Chinese poet^[5]
  • Zhu Xicai, general of the Tang Dynasty