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Calendar year

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century 3rd century 4th century
Decades:	250s 260s 270s 280s 290s
Years:	269 270 271 272 273 274 275
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272 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar 272
CCLXXII

Ab urbe condita 1025

Assyrian calendar 5022

Balinese saka calendar 193–194

Bengali calendar −322 – −321

Berber calendar 1222

Buddhist calendar 816

Burmese calendar −366

Byzantine calendar 5780–5781

Chinese calendar 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
2969 or 2762
— to —
壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
2970 or 2763

Coptic calendar −12 – −11

Discordian calendar 1438

Ethiopian calendar 264–265

Hebrew calendar 4032–4033

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat 328–329

- Shaka Samvat 193–194

- Kali Yuga 3372–3373

Holocene calendar 10272

Iranian calendar 350 BP – 349 BP

Islamic calendar 361 BH – 360 BH

Javanese calendar 151–152

Julian calendar 272
CCLXXII

Korean calendar 2605

Minguo calendar 1640 before ROC
民前1640年

Nanakshahi calendar −1196

Seleucid era 583/584 AG

Thai solar calendar 814–815

Tibetan calendar 阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
398 or 17 or −755
— to —
阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
399 or 18 or −754

King Hormizd I of Persia

Year 272 (CCLXXII ) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Postumius and Veldumnianus (or, less frequently, year 1025 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 272 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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Roman Empire

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Emperor Aurelian launches a two-pronged invasion of the Palmyrene Empire, sending his commander Marcus Aurelius Probus to restore Roman rule in Egypt while he marches into Asia Minor.^[1]
As part of a strategy of clemency, Aurelian spares Tyana after capturing the city. This strategy encourages units under Zenobia to defect to Aurelian.
Battle of Immae: Aurelian defeats the Palmyrene heavy cavalry (clibanarii ) near Antioch. Queen Zenobia flees under cover of darkness to Emesa (Syria).
Aurelian supports the bishops of Italy in deposing the bishop of Antioch, Paul of Samosata, who had been a supporter of Zenobia. This is the first recorded instance of an imperial intervention in an ecclesiastical dispute.
Battle of Emesa: Aurelian decisively defeats the Palmyrene army.
Aurelian besieges Palmyra. Zenobia attempts to escape to Persia but is captured on the Euphrates. Palmyra surrenders soon after.
Following a series of trials held in Emesa, Cassius Longinus and other advisors of Zenobia are executed for conspiring against Aurelian.

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Dometius succeeds Titus as Patriarch of Constantinople.
Saint Denis, first Bishop of Paris, and two of his disciples are beheaded on the road to the Temple of Mercury that stands atop a hill outside of the city. The hill will later be called Montmartre (Mountain of Martyrs) in Lutetia (modern Paris).
Paul of Samosata is deposed as Patriarch of Antioch.