972
| Years | 
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| Millennium | 
| 1st millennium | 
| Centuries | 
| Decades | 
| Years | 
| 972 by topic | 
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| Leaders | 
| Categories | 
| 
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| Gregorian calendar | 972 CMLXXII | 
| Ab urbe condita | 1725 | 
| Armenian calendar | 421 ԹՎ ՆԻԱ | 
| Assyrian calendar | 5722 | 
| Balinese saka calendar | 893–894 | 
| Bengali calendar | 378–379 | 
| Berber calendar | 1922 | 
| Buddhist calendar | 1516 | 
| Burmese calendar | 334 | 
| Byzantine calendar | 6480–6481 | 
| Chinese calendar | 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 3669 or 3462 — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3670 or 3463 | 
| Coptic calendar | 688–689 | 
| Discordian calendar | 2138 | 
| Ethiopian calendar | 964–965 | 
| Hebrew calendar | 4732–4733 | 
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1028–1029 | 
| - Shaka Samvat | 893–894 | 
| - Kali Yuga | 4072–4073 | 
| Holocene calendar | 10972 | 
| Iranian calendar | 350–351 | 
| Islamic calendar | 361–362 | 
| Japanese calendar | Tenroku 3 (天禄3年) | 
| Javanese calendar | 873–874 | 
| Julian calendar | 972 CMLXXII | 
| Korean calendar | 3305 | 
| Minguo calendar | 940 before ROC 民前940年 | 
| Nanakshahi calendar | −496 | 
| Seleucid era | 1283/1284 AG | 
| Thai solar calendar | 1514–1515 | 
| Tibetan calendar | 阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 1098 or 717 or −55 — to — 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 1099 or 718 or −54 | 
Year 972 (CMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.