Centuries:	9th century - 10th century - 11th century
Decades:	940s  950s  960s  - 970s -  980s  990s  1000s
Years:	969 970 971 - 972 - 973 974 975

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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
Bahá'í calendar	-872 – -871
Berber calendar	1922
Buddhist calendar	1516
Burmese calendar	334
Byzantine calendar	6480 – 6481
Chinese calendar	辛未年十二月十二日 (3608/3668-12-12) — to — 壬申年十一月廿三日 (3609/3669-11-23)
Coptic calendar	688 – 689
Ethiopian calendar	964 – 965
Hebrew calendar	4732 – 4733
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1027 – 1028
- Shaka Samvat	894 – 895
- Kali Yuga	4073 – 4074
Holocene calendar	10972
Iranian calendar	350 – 351
Islamic calendar	361 – 362
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3305
Thai solar calendar	1515
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972 was a year in the 10th century.

Events

By Place

Europe

• 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.

Asia

• The Song Dynasty Chinese government attempts to ban the practice of cremation; despite this decree, the lower and middle classes continue to cremate their dead, until the government resolves the problem in the 12th century by establishing public graveyards for paupers.

Africa

• The Fatimids enter Egypt, where they establish the city of Cairo and the Al-Azhar mosque.
• 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