972

972 (CMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 972nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 972nd year of the 1st millennium, the 72nd year of the 10th century, and the 3rd year of the 970s decade. As of the start of 972, the Gregorian calendar was 5 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	972 CMLXXII
Ab urbe condita	1725
Armenian calendar	421 ԹՎ ՆԻԱ
Assyrian calendar	5722
Balinese saka calendar	893–894
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	893–894
- Kali Yuga	4072–4073
Holocene calendar	10972
Iranian calendar	350–351
Islamic calendar	361–362
Japanese calendar	Tenroku 3 (天禄３年)
Javanese calendar	873–874
Julian calendar	972 CMLXXII
Korean calendar	3305
Minguo calendar	940 before ROC 民前940年
Nanakshahi calendar	−496
Seleucid era	1283/1284 AG
Thai solar calendar	1514–1515
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Sheep) 1098 or 717 or −55     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Water-Monkey) 1099 or 718 or −54

Events

• Otto II marries Theophanu, Byzantine princess
• Battle of Cedynia – Polish duke Mieszko I defeats Germans
• Pope Benedict VI succeeds Pope John XIII as pope
• Boleslaus II the Pious succeeds Boleslav I of Bohemia in Bohemia
• Yaropolk of Kiev succeeds Sviatoslav I in Kiev
• Fatimids enter Egypt, establish the Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo
• Buluggin ibn Ziri appointed viceroy in Ifriqiya, start of the Zirid dynasty
• The monastery at the site of Peterborough Cathedral is rebuilt
• Saint Eadburga is canonized
• Emperor John Tzoimisces makes eastern Bulgaria a Byzantine subject
• The city of Satu Mare, Romania is founded

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)