| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 940s 950s 960s – 970s – 980s 990s 1000s |
| Years: | 969 970 971 – 972 – 973 974 975 |
| 972 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 972 CMLXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1725 |
| Armenian calendar | 421 ԹՎ ՆԻԱ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -872 – -871 |
| Bengali calendar | 379 |
| Berber calendar | 1922 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1516 |
| Burmese calendar | 334 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6480 – 6481 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛未年十二月十二日 (3608/3668-12-12) — to —
壬申年十一月廿三日(3609/3669-11-23) |
| Coptic calendar | 688 – 689 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 964 – 965 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4732 – 4733 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1028 – 1029 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 894 – 895 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4073 – 4074 |
| Holocene calendar | 10972 |
| Iranian calendar | 350 – 351 |
| Islamic calendar | 361 – 362 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3305 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1515 |
972 was a year in the 10th century.