172

Year 172 (CLXXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scipio and Maximus (or, less frequently, year 925 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 172 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
172 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar172
CLXXII
Ab urbe condita925
Assyrian calendar4922
Balinese saka calendar93–94
Bengali calendar−421
Berber calendar1122
Buddhist calendar716
Burmese calendar−466
Byzantine calendar5680–5681
Chinese calendar辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
2868 or 2808
     to 
壬子年 (Water Rat)
2869 or 2809
Coptic calendar−112 – −111
Discordian calendar1338
Ethiopian calendar164–165
Hebrew calendar3932–3933
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat228–229
 - Shaka Samvat93–94
 - Kali Yuga3272–3273
Holocene calendar10172
Iranian calendar450 BP – 449 BP
Islamic calendar464 BH – 463 BH
Javanese calendar48–49
Julian calendar172
CLXXII
Korean calendar2505
Minguo calendar1740 before ROC
民前1740年
Nanakshahi calendar−1296
Seleucid era483/484 AG
Thai solar calendar714–715
Tibetan calendar阴金猪年
(female Iron-Pig)
298 or −83 or −855
     to 
阳水鼠年
(male Water-Rat)
299 or −82 or −854

Events

Roman Empire

  • Emperor Marcus Aurelius crosses the Danube with an expeditionary force. He subdues the Marcomanni and their allies and then, in a pact signed with the Germanic tribes, he imports them into the Roman Empire to occupy areas that have been depopulated by the plague.
  • The Sarmatians attack the lower Danube frontier.
  • Miracle in Moravia: As the Roman army is encircled by the Quadi under intense heat, a violent thunderstorm sweeps away the Quadi in a torrent of water and mud, and refreshes the parched legionaries.
  • Avidius Cassius, governor of Syria, suppresses an agrarian revolt in Egypt and is made supreme commander of the Roman army in the East.

Asia

  • Last (5th) year of Jianning era and start of Xiping era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
  • Battle of Jwawon: Goguryeo Prime Minister Myeongnim Dap-bu defeats the Chinese Han Dynasty forces in Manchuria.

Religion

  • Tatian produces his Diatessaron, a harmony of the four gospels.
  • Montanism spreads through the Roman Empire.

Births

  • Lu Su, Chinese general and politician (d. 217)
  • Xu Miao, Chinese official and politician (d. 249)

Deaths

  • Dou Miao (or Huansi), Chinese empress
  • Hou Lan, Chinese eunuch-official and politician
  • Marcus Macrinius Vindex, Roman praetorian prefect

References

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