672

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.

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672 by topic
Leaders
  • Political entities
  • State leaders
  • Religious leaders
Categories
  • Births
  • Deaths
  • Establishments
672 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar672
DCLXXII
Ab urbe condita1425
Armenian calendar121
ԹՎ ՃԻԱ
Assyrian calendar5422
Balinese saka calendar593–594
Bengali calendar79
Berber calendar1622
Buddhist calendar1216
Burmese calendar34
Byzantine calendar6180–6181
Chinese calendar辛未年 (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 Samvat593–594
 - Kali Yuga3772–3773
Holocene calendar10672
Iranian calendar50–51
Islamic calendar51–53
Japanese calendarN/A
Javanese calendar563–564
Julian calendar672
DCLXXII
Korean calendar3005
Minguo calendar1240 before ROC
民前1240年
Nanakshahi calendar−796
Seleucid era983/984 AG
Thai solar calendar1214–1215
Tibetan calendar阴金羊年
(female Iron-Goat)
798 or 417 or −355
    — to —
阳水猴年
(male Water-Monkey)
799 or 418 or −354
Pope Adeodatus II (672–676)

Events

Europe
  • Wamba succeeds Recceswinth as king of the Visigoths. After ascending to the throne he faces a revolt from Hilderic, governor of Nîmes, who has himself aspired to the kingship. He is supported by Gumild, bishop of Maguelone. Wamba sends dux Paulus to Septimania (Southern France) to end the hostilities, but on his arrival at Narbonne, Paulus proclaims himself king.[1]

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 ensues a succession dispute between Tenji's 14 children (many by different mothers). He is succeeded by his favorite son Kōbun, age 23, who was the first accorded with the title Daijō-daijin.[2]
  • 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.

Americas
  • As part of the Second Tikal-Calakmul War, B'alaj Chan K'awiil is again forced to abandon Dos Pilas, after it is attacked by an insurgency led by Nuun Ujol Chaak against Calakmul.

Literature
  • Cædmon, Anglo-Saxon poet, writes a nine-line hymn on the Creation. A onetime illiterate herdsman, he becomes a monk under the rule of Hilda of Whitby, where he will turn various biblical themes into vernacular poetry (approximate date).

Religion

Births
  • Bede, Anglo-Saxon theologian and historian (approximate date)
  • Chilperic II, king of the Franks (approximate date)
  • Yazid ibn al-Muhallab, Muslim governor (d. 720)

Deaths
Emperor Tenji
Pope Vitalian
Emperor Kōbun

Date unknown
  • Cenwalh, king of Wessex (approximate date)
  • Jiang Ke, general of the Tang Dynasty
  • Recceswinth, king of the Visigoths
  • Xu Jingzong, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 592)

References
  1. Wickham, Chris (2005). Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800. OUP Oxford. p. 96.
  2. Ponsonby-Fane, Richard (1959). "The Imperial House of Japan", p. 53
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