872
| Years | 
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| Millennium | 
| 1st millennium | 
| Centuries | 
| Decades | 
| Years | 
| 872 by topic | 
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| Leaders | 
| Categories | 
| 
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| Gregorian calendar | 872 DCCCLXXII | 
| Ab urbe condita | 1625 | 
| Armenian calendar | 321 ԹՎ ՅԻԱ | 
| Assyrian calendar | 5622 | 
| Balinese saka calendar | 793–794 | 
| Bengali calendar | 278–279 | 
| Berber calendar | 1822 | 
| Buddhist calendar | 1416 | 
| Burmese calendar | 234 | 
| Byzantine calendar | 6380–6381 | 
| Chinese calendar | 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 3569 or 3362 — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3570 or 3363 | 
| Coptic calendar | 588–589 | 
| Discordian calendar | 2038 | 
| Ethiopian calendar | 864–865 | 
| Hebrew calendar | 4632–4633 | 
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 928–929 | 
| - Shaka Samvat | 793–794 | 
| - Kali Yuga | 3972–3973 | 
| Holocene calendar | 10872 | 
| Iranian calendar | 250–251 | 
| Islamic calendar | 258–259 | 
| Japanese calendar | Jōgan 14 (貞観14年) | 
| Javanese calendar | 770–771 | 
| Julian calendar | 872 DCCCLXXII | 
| Korean calendar | 3205 | 
| Minguo calendar | 1040 before ROC 民前1040年 | 
| Nanakshahi calendar | −596 | 
| Seleucid era | 1183/1184 AG | 
| Thai solar calendar | 1414–1415 | 
| Tibetan calendar | 阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) 998 or 617 or −155 — to — 阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 999 or 618 or −154 | 
Year 872 (DCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.