| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century |
| Decades: | 240s 250s 260s – 270s – 280s 290s 300s |
| Years: | 269 270 271 – 272 – 273 274 275 |
| 272 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 272 CCLXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1025 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 5022 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1572–-1571 |
| Bengali calendar | -321 |
| Berber calendar | 1222 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 816 |
| Burmese calendar | -366 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5780–5781 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛卯年十一月十四日 (2908/2968-11-14) — to —
壬辰年十一月廿四日(2909/2969-11-24) |
| Coptic calendar | -12–-11 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 264–265 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4032–4033 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 328–329 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 194–195 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3373–3374 |
| Holocene calendar | 10272 |
| Iranian calendar | 350 BP – 349 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 361 BH – 360 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2605 |
| Minguo calendar | 1640 before ROC 民前1640年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 815 |
Year 272 (CCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Postumius and Veldumnianus (or, less frequently, year 1025 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 272 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.