772

Year 772 (DCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 772 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:
772 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar772
DCCLXXII
Ab urbe condita1525
Armenian calendar221
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Assyrian calendar5522
Balinese saka calendar693–694
Bengali calendar179
Berber calendar1722
Buddhist calendar1316
Burmese calendar134
Byzantine calendar6280–6281
Chinese calendar辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
3468 or 3408
     to 
壬子年 (Water Rat)
3469 or 3409
Coptic calendar488–489
Discordian calendar1938
Ethiopian calendar764–765
Hebrew calendar4532–4533
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat828–829
 - Shaka Samvat693–694
 - Kali Yuga3872–3873
Holocene calendar10772
Iranian calendar150–151
Islamic calendar155–156
Japanese calendarHōki 3
(宝亀3年)
Javanese calendar666–667
Julian calendar772
DCCLXXII
Korean calendar3105
Minguo calendar1140 before ROC
民前1140年
Nanakshahi calendar−696
Seleucid era1083/1084 AG
Thai solar calendar1314–1315
Tibetan calendar阴金猪年
(female Iron-Pig)
898 or 517 or −255
     to 
阳水鼠年
(male Water-Rat)
899 or 518 or −254
Charlemagne and pope Adrian I (772–795)

Events

Europe

  • Saxon Wars: King Charlemagne leads a Frankish expedition from the Middle Rhine into disputed territory lost by the Franks in 695. He starts a campaign against the Saxons and seizes Eresburg, destroying the Irminsul (Saxon sacred tree) near Paderborn. Charlemagne devastates several major Saxon strongholds, and forces them to retreat beyond the Weser River. After negotiating with some Saxon nobles and obtaining hostages, he installs a number of garrisons.[1]
  • King Desiderius of the Lombards, enraged by the repudiation by Charlemagne of his daughter Desiderata, proclaims Gerberga's sons lawful heirs to the Frankish throne. He attacks Pope Adrian I for refusing to crown them, and invades the Duchy of the Pentapolis. Desiderius marches on Rome, and Adrian turns to the Franks for military support.
  • In England, King Offa of Mercia attempts to rule Kent directly, possibly to depose his rival Egbert II (approximate date).

Asia

  • Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur completes construction of the garrison city of al-Rāfiqah adjacent to Raqqa.

Religion

  • February 1 Pope Stephen III dies after a 3½-year reign, in which he has approved the acceptable reverence of icons in the Eastern Church. He is succeeded by Adrian I (also referred to as Hadrian) as the 95th pope of Rome.

Births

  • Bai Ju Yi, Chinese poet and official (d. 846)[2]
  • Cui Qun, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 832)
  • Cui Zhi, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 829)
  • Li Ao, Chinese philosopher and prose writer (d. 841)
  • Liu Yuxi, Chinese poet and philosopher (d. 842)
  • probable

Deaths

  • February 1 Pope Stephen III[3]
  • May 13 Dōkyō, Japanese Buddhist monk (b. 700)
  • July 10 Amalberga of Temse, Lotharingian nun and saint (b. 741)[4]
  • date unknown
    • Dúngal mac Cellaig, king of Osraige (Ireland)
    • Yuan Jie, Chinese poet[5]
    • Zhu Xicai, general of the Tang Dynasty

References

  1. David Nicolle (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785, pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5
  2. Ueki, Hisayuki; Uno, Naoto; Matsubara, Akira (1999). "Shijin to Shi no Shōgai (Haku Kyoi)". In Matsuura, Tomohisa (ed.). Kanshi no Jiten 漢詩の事典 (in Japanese). Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten. pp. 123–127. OCLC 41025662.
  3. Vertot (abbé de) (1754). The Origin of the Grandeur of the Court of Rome ... Translated ... by John Farrington. R. & J. Dodsley. p. 81.
  4. "St. Amalberga". Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  5. Victor Xiong (July 25, 2000). Sui-Tang Chang'an: A Study in the Urban History of Late Medieval China. University of Michigan Press. p. 186. ISBN 978-0-89264-137-6.
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