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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 840s 850s 860s – 870s – 880s 890s 900s |
| Years: | 869 870 871 – 872 – 873 874 875 |
| 872 by topic | |
| Politics | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 872 DCCCLXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1625 |
| Armenian calendar | 321 ԹՎ ՅԻԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5622 |
| Bengali calendar | 279 |
| Berber calendar | 1822 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1416 |
| Burmese calendar | 234 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6380–6381 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 3568 or 3508 — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3569 or 3509 |
| Coptic calendar | 588–589 |
| Discordian calendar | 2038 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 864–865 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4632–4633 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 928–929 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 794–795 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3973–3974 |
| Holocene calendar | 10872 |
| Iranian calendar | 250–251 |
| Islamic calendar | 258–259 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōgan 14 (貞観１４年) |
| Julian calendar | 872 DCCCLXXII |
| Korean calendar | 3205 |
| Minguo calendar | 1040 before ROC 民前1040年 |
| Seleucid era | 1183/1184 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1414–1415 |
Year 872 (DCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- Battle of Hafrsfjord: Harald Fairhair becomes the first king of Norway.
- Gascony becomes an independent kingdom, with Sancho I Mitarra as its first king.
- Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned for the second time.
- Al-Andalus: uprising of the city of Toledo against the Umayyad ruler due to ethnic tensions between recent converts, the muwalladun, and the Arab elite .[1]
Africa
- Establishment of the first hospital of the Muslim world, in Cairo, by the Abbasid governor, Ahmad ibn Tulun.[2]
By topic
Religion
- December 14 – Pope John VIII succeeds Pope Adrian II as the 107th pope.
Births
Deaths
- April 2 – Muflih al-Turki, Abbasid general
- Fujiwara no Yoshifusa, Japanese regent
- Pope Adrian II
- Ivar the Boneless, Viking chief
