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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 | 379 |
| Berber calendar | 1922 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1516 |
| Burmese calendar | 334 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6480–6481 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 3668 or 3608 — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3669 or 3609 |
| 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 | ལྕགས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Sheep) 1098 or 717 or −55 — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Water-Monkey) 1099 or 718 or −54 |
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972 (CMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 972nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 972nd year of the 1st millennium, the 72nd year of the 10th century, and the 3rd year of the 970s decade. As of the start of 972, the Gregorian calendar was 5 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.