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Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries: 6th century7th century8th century
Decades: 640s  650s  660s 670s 680s  690s  700s
Years: 669 670 671672673 674 675
672 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
672 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar672
DCLXXII
Ab urbe condita1425
Armenian calendar121
ԹՎ ՃԻԱ
Assyrian calendar5422
Bahá'í calendar−1172 – −1171
Bengali calendar79
Berber calendar1622
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar1216
Burmese calendar34
Byzantine calendar6180–6181
Chinese calendar辛未(Metal Goat)
3368 or 3308
     to 
壬申年 (Water Monkey)
3369 or 3309
Coptic calendar388–389
Discordian calendar1838
Ethiopian calendar664–665
Hebrew calendar4432–4433
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat728–729
 - Shaka Samvat594–595
 - Kali Yuga3773–3774
Holocene calendar10672
Igbo calendar−328 – −327
Iranian calendar50–51
Islamic calendar51–53
Japanese calendarN/A
Juche calendarN/A
Julian calendar672
DCLXXII
Korean calendar3005
Minguo calendar1240 before ROC
民前1240年
Thai solar calendar1215

Year 672 (DCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 672 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.

Events

By place

Europe

Britain

  • King Cenwalh of Wessex dies after a 31 year reign in which he has lost much of his territory to Welsh and Mercian forces. He is succeeded by his widow Seaxburh. His sub-kings divide Wessex amongst themselves (approximate date).

Asia

  • January 7 Emperor Tenji dies after a 10-year reign in which he has given the Fujiwara clan its name. Following his death, there ensued a succession dispute between Tenji's 14 children (many by different mothers). He is succeeded by his favorite son Kōbun, age 23, who has been first accorded with the title Daijō-daijin.[1]
  • August 21 Kōbun is deposed after 8 months during a brief but violent battle called the Jinshin War. He is succeeded by his uncle Ōama, who becomes the 40th emperor of Japan with support from the Fujiwara family. He takes the name Tenmu and begins a reign that will continue until 686.

By topic

Literature

Religion

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Ponsonby-Fane, Richard (1959). "The Imperial House of Japan", p. 53
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