972

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

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

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

972 in various 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	阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 1098 or 717 or −55     — to — 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 1099 or 718 or −54

Otto II (left) and Theophanu are anointed by Pope John XIII as Emperor and Empress.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Spring – Emperor John I Tzimiskes divides the Bulgarian territories, recently held by the Kievan Rus', into six new themes. He turns his attention to the East against the Abbasid Caliphate and its vassals, beginning with an invasion of Upper Mesopotamia. John transfers Byzantine troops to Macedonia and the region of Philippopolis in Thrace to dilute the Slavs.[1]
• John I removes various Bulgarian boyars from their homes and settle them in Constantinople and Anatolia (modern Turkey), where they are given high titles and lands.[2]
• John I grants a charter for the Monastic Republic of Holy Mount Athos, in Greece.

Europe

• Spring – Grand Prince Sviatoslav I is ambushed by the Pechenegs (possibly in the service of the Byzantines) and killed during his attempt to cross the Dnieper rapids (modern Ukraine). His skull is made into a drinking cup. Sviatoslav is succeeded by his eldest son Yaropolk I as ruler of Kiev, which leads to a civil war between his brother Oleg.[3]
• April 14 – Otto II (the Red), joint-ruler and son of Otto I (the Great), marries the Byzantine princess Theophanu (niece or granddaughter of John I). She is crowned empress by Pope John XIII at Rome. Creating an alliance between the Ottonian Dynasty and the Byzantine Empire (called the Tzimiscian Peace).[4]
• June 24 – Battle of Cedynia: The Polans under prince (or Duke) Mieszko I, defeat at their stronghold in Cedynia (with the help of hidden reinforcements) the German forces of the Saxon count Odo I. The battle – one of the first in Polish history – strengthen Mieszko's hold over Western Pomerania.[5]

Africa

• Buluggin ibn Ziri is appointed viceroy in Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia) and becomes the first ruler (emir) of the Zirid Dynasty.

By topic

Religion

• September 6 – John XIII dies at Rome after a 6-year reign. He is succeeded by Benedict VI as the 134th pope of the Catholic Church.
• The monastery at the site of Peterborough Cathedral is rebuilt by Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury.[6]

Births

• January 16 – Sheng Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty (d. 1031)
• March 27 – Robert II (the Pious), king of France (d. 1031)
• Al-Mawardi, Abbasid jurist and diplomat (d. 1058)
• Ermesinde, countess and regent of Barcelona (d. 1058)
• Fujiwara no Seishi, Japanese empress consort (d. 1025)
• Fujiwara no Yukinari, Japanese calligrapher (d. 1027)
• Gregory V, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 999)[7]
• Ramon Borrell, count of Barcelona (d. 1017)

Deaths

• September 6 – John XIII, pope of the Catholic Church[8]
• December 18 (or 973) – Eberhard IV, Frankish nobleman (or 973)
• Ælfwold I (or Ælfweald), bishop of Crediton
• Arnulf II, count of Boulogne (approximate date)
• Boleslaus I (the Cruel), duke of Bohemia (or 967)
• Feng Yanlu, Chinese official (approximate date)
• Fujiwara no Koretada, Japanese statesman (b. 924)
• Khottiga Amoghavarsha, ruler of the Rashtrakuta Empire
• Kūya, Japanese priest of Pure Land Buddhism (b. 903)
• Liutprand, Lombard bishop and historian
• Sviatoslav I (Igorevich), Grand Prince of Kiev

References

1. Brian Todd Carey (2012). Road to Manzikert: Byzantine and Islamic Warfare 527–1071, p. 95. ISBN 978-1-84884-215-1.
2. Fine, John V. A., Jr. (1991) [1983]. The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-08149-7.
3. Fine, John V. A., Jr. (1991) [1983]. The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-08149-7.
4. Reuter, Timothy (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume III, p. 254. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
5. Richard Brzezinski (1998). History of Poland: Old Poland, King Mieszko I , p. 15. ISBN 83-7212-019-6.
6. The most recent survey of the Anglo-Saxon history of Peterborough Abbey is in Kelly, S.E. (ed.), Charters of Peterborough Abbey, Anglo-Saxon Charters 14, OUP, 2009.
7. "Gregory V | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
8. "John XIII | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 8, 2019.