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Calendar year

Calendar year

Years Millennium 1st millennium Centuries 7th century 8th century 9th century Decades 750s 760s 770s 780s 790s Years 769 770 771 772 773 774 775 v t e

772 by topic Leaders Political entities State leaders Religious leaders Categories Births Deaths Establishments v t e

772 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 772 DCCLXXII Ab urbe condita 1525 Armenian calendar 221 ԹՎ ՄԻԱ Assyrian calendar 5522 Balinese saka calendar 693–694 Bengali calendar 178–179 Berber calendar 1722 Buddhist calendar 1316 Burmese calendar 134 Byzantine calendar 6280–6281 Chinese calendar 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 3469 or 3262 — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 3470 or 3263 Coptic calendar 488–489 Discordian calendar 1938 Ethiopian calendar 764–765 Hebrew calendar 4532–4533 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 828–829 - Shaka Samvat 693–694 - Kali Yuga 3872–3873 Holocene calendar 10772 Iranian calendar 150–151 Islamic calendar 155–156 Japanese calendar Hōki 3 (宝亀３年) Javanese calendar 666–667 Julian calendar 772 DCCLXXII Korean calendar 3105 Minguo calendar 1140 before ROC 民前1140年 Nanakshahi calendar −696 Seleucid era 1083/1084 AG Thai solar calendar 1314–1315 Tibetan calendar ལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Boar) 898 or 517 or −255 — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 899 or 518 or −254

[Charlemagne](/source/Charlemagne) and pope [Adrian I](/source/Pope_Adrian_I) (772–795)

Year **772** (**[DCCLXXII](/source/Roman_numerals)**) was a [leap year starting on Wednesday](/source/Leap_year_starting_on_Wednesday) of the [Julian calendar](/source/Julian_calendar). The denomination 772 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [Anno Domini](/source/Anno_Domini) [calendar era](/source/Calendar_era) became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events

### By place

#### Europe

- [Saxon Wars](/source/Saxon_Wars#First_phase): King [Charlemagne](/source/Charlemagne) leads a [Frankish](/source/Francia) expedition from the [Middle Rhine](/source/Middle_Rhine) into disputed territory lost by the [Franks](/source/Franks) in [695](/source/695). He starts a campaign against the [Saxons](/source/Saxons) and seizes [Eresburg](/source/Eresburg), destroying the *[Irminsul](/source/Irminsul)* (Saxon [sacred tree](/source/Tree_worship)) near [Paderborn](/source/Paderborn). Charlemagne devastates several major Saxon strongholds, and forces them to retreat beyond the [Weser River](/source/Weser). After negotiating with some Saxon nobles and obtaining hostages, he installs a number of garrisons.[1]

- King [Desiderius](/source/Desiderius) of the [Lombards](/source/Lombards), enraged by the repudiation by Charlemagne of his daughter [Desiderata](/source/Desiderata_of_the_Lombards), proclaims [Gerberga](/source/Gerberga%2C_wife_of_Carloman_I)'s sons lawful heirs to the Frankish throne. He attacks [Pope Adrian I](/source/Pope_Adrian_I) for refusing to crown them, and invades the [Duchy of the Pentapolis](/source/Duchy_of_the_Pentapolis). Desiderius marches on [Rome](/source/Rome), and Adrian turns to the Franks for military support.

- In England, King [Offa of Mercia](/source/Offa_of_Mercia) attempts to rule [Kent](/source/Kingdom_of_Kent) directly, possibly to depose his rival [Egbert II](/source/Egbert_II_of_Kent) (approximate date).

#### Asia

- [Abbasid caliph](/source/Abbasid_caliph) [Al-Mansur](/source/Al-Mansur) completes construction of the garrison city of al-Rāfiqah adjacent to [Raqqa](/source/Raqqa).

### By topic

#### Religion

- [January 24](/source/January_24) – [Pope Stephen III](/source/Pope_Stephen_III) dies after a 3½-year reign, in which he has approved the acceptable reverence of [icons](/source/Icon) in the [Eastern Church](/source/Eastern_Christianity). On [February 1](/source/February_1) he is succeeded by [Adrian I](/source/Pope_Adrian_I) (also referred to as Hadrian) as the 95th [pope](/source/Pope) of Rome.

## Births

- [Bai Juyi](/source/Bai_Juyi), Chinese [poet](/source/Chinese_poetry) and official (d. [846](/source/846))[2]

- [Cui Qun](/source/Cui_Qun), Chinese [Chancellor of the Tang dynasty](/source/Chancellor_of_the_Tang_dynasty) (d. [832](/source/832))

- [Cui Zhi](/source/Cui_Zhi), Chinese Chancellor of the Tang dynasty (d. [829](/source/829))

- [Li Ao](/source/Li_Ao_(philosopher)), Chinese [philosopher](/source/Chinese_philosophy) and [prose](/source/Prose) writer (d. [841](/source/841))

- [Liu Yuxi](/source/Liu_Yuxi), Chinese poet and philosopher (d. [842](/source/842))

- *probable* – [Charles the Younger](/source/Charles_the_Younger), son of [Charlemagne](/source/Charlemagne) (d. [811](/source/811))

## Deaths

- [February 1](/source/February_1) – [Pope Stephen III](/source/Pope_Stephen_III)[3]

- [May 13](/source/May_13) – [Dōkyō](/source/D%C5%8Dky%C5%8D), Japanese [Buddhist](/source/Buddhism_in_Japan) monk (b. [700](/source/700))

- [July 10](/source/July_10) – [Amalberga of Temse](/source/Amalberga_of_Temse), Lotharingian nun and saint (b. [741](/source/741))[4]

- *date unknown* - [Dúngal mac Cellaig](/source/D%C3%BAngal_mac_Cellaig), king of [Osraige](/source/Kings_of_Osraige) ([Ireland](/source/Ireland)) - [Remigius of Rouen](/source/Remigius_of_Rouen), archbishop, illegitimate son of [Charles Martel](/source/Charles_Martel) - [Yuan Jie](/source/Yuan_Jie), Chinese poet[5] - [Zhu Xicai](/source/Zhu_Xicai), Chinese general of the Tang dynasty

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Nicolle, David (2014). *The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785*. pp. 12–13. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-78200-825-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-78200-825-5).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Ueki, Hisayuki; Uno, Naoto; Matsubara, Akira (1999). "Shijin to Shi no Shōgai (Haku Kyoi)". In Matsuura, Tomohisa (ed.). *Kanshi no Jiten* 漢詩の事典 (in Japanese). Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten. pp. 123–127. [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [41025662](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/41025662).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Vertot (abbé de) (1754). [*The Origin of the Grandeur of the Court of Rome ...*](https://books.google.com/books?id=L7uzhN31tB8C&pg=PA81) Translated by John Farrington. London: R. & J. Dodsley. p. 81.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["St. Amalberga"](http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01377b.htm). *Catholic Encyclopedia*. Retrieved April 6, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Xiong, Victor (2000). [*Sui-Tang Chang'an: A Study in the Urban History of Late Medieval China*](https://books.google.com/books?id=W8fkAAAAMAAJ). University of Michigan Press. p. 186. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-89264-137-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-89264-137-6).

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