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972

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

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Africa

  • Buluggin ibn Ziri is appointed viceroy in Ifriqiya, starting the Zirid Dynasty.

    • Europe

  • The city of Satu Mare, Romania is founded.
  • 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.

    • 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

  • September 6 – Pope John XIII
  • Boleslav I of Bohemia
  • Liutprand, bishop of Cremona and historian
  • Sviatoslav I, Prince of Kiev
  • Kuya, Japanese monk of Pure Land Buddhism (b. 903).

    • References

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