972
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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 |
Year 972 (CMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Spring – Emperor
- John I removes various Bulgarian boyars from their homes, and settles 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 Oleg.[3]
- 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]
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)
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- 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)
- Pope John XIII[9]
- Rashtrakuta Empire
- Kūya, Japanese priest of Pure Land Buddhism (b. 903)
- Liutprand, Lombard bishop and historian
- Sviatoslav I (Igorevich), Grand Prince of Kiev
References
- ISBN 978-1-84884-215-1.
- ISBN 0-472-08149-7.
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- ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
- ISBN 83-7212-019-6.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Gregory V | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
- ^ "John XIII | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
- ISBN 0-14-007078-8.