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| Centuries: | 10th century - 11th century - 12th century |
| Decades: | 1040s 1050s 1060s - 1070s - 1080s 1090s 1100s |
| Years: | 1069 1070 1071 - 1072 - 1073 1074 1075 |
| 1072 by topic | |
| Lists of leaders | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1072 MLXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1825 |
| Armenian calendar | 521 ԹՎ ՇԻԱ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -772 – -771 |
| Berber calendar | 2022 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1616 |
| Burmese calendar | 434 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6580 – 6581 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛亥年十二月初九日 (3708/3768-12-9) — to —
壬子年十一月十九日(3709/3769-11-19) |
| Coptic calendar | 788 – 789 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1064 – 1065 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4832 – 4833 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1127 – 1128 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 994 – 995 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4173 – 4174 |
| Holocene calendar | 11072 |
| Iranian calendar | 450 – 451 |
| Islamic calendar | 464 – 465 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3405 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1615 |
Contents |
Events
Europe
- William I of England invades Scotland, and also receives the submission of Hereward the Wake.
- Osbern FitzOsbern becomes Bishop of Exeter.
- January 10 — The Normans conquer Palermo in Sicily.
- May 27 — The Accord of Winchester establishes the primacy of the Archbishop of Canterbury over the Archbishop of York in the Church of England.
- Dunfermline Abbey is founded - later to become the burial place of several Kings of Scots, including Robert the Bruce. The associated royal palace will be the birth place of King Charles I.
- Alfonso VI becomes king of Leon and Castile following the assassination of his brother Sancho.
Asia
- The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo is appointed as the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, where he begins his groundbreaking work with the colleague Wei Pu on accurately plotting the orbital paths of the stars, planets, and moon three times a night for a continuum of five years.
- Shen Kuo is sent to supervise Chancellor Wang Anshi's program of surveying the building of silt deposits in the Bian Canal outside the capital city of Kaifeng. Using an original technique, Shen successfully dredges the canal and demonstrates the formidable value of the silt gathered as a fertilizer.
Births
Deaths
- February 22 — Peter Damian, Italian saint (born c. 1007)
- March 16 — Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop
- September 22 — Ouyang Xiu, Chinese statesman, historian, essayist and poet (b. 1007)
- November 24 - King Bagrat IV of Georgia (b. 1018)
- December 15 — Alp Arslan, Turkish sultan in Persia (b. 1029)
- Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury
