872

872 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	872; DCCCLXXII
Ab urbe condita	1625
Armenian calendar	321; ԹՎ ՅԻԱ
Assyrian calendar	5622
Balinese saka calendar	793–794
Bengali calendar	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

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century; 9th century ; 10th century;
Decades:	850s; 860s; 870s ; 880s; 890s;
Years:	869; 870; 871; 872 ; 873; 874; 875;

Year 872 (DCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Battle of Hafrsfjord: Harald Fairhair becomes the first king of Norway.
Gascony becomes an independent kingdom, with Sancho I Mitarra as its first king.
Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned for the second time.
Al-Andalus: uprising of the city of Toledo against the Umayyad ruler due to ethnic tensions between recent converts, the muwalladun, and the Arab elite .^[1]

Establishment of the first hospital of the Muslim world, in Cairo, by the Abbasid governor, Ahmad ibn Tulun.^[2]

^ Rucquoi, Adeline (1993). Histoire médiévale de la Péninsule ibérique. Paris: Seuil. p. 85. ISBN 2-02-012935-3.
^ "Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts _ Hospitals". Retrieved November 8, 2011.