272

This article is about the year 272. For the number, see 272 (number).

Year 272 (CCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) 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.

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

272 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	272 CCLXXII
Ab urbe condita	1025
Assyrian calendar	5022
Balinese saka calendar	193–194
Bengali calendar	−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

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• 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.
• 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.

By topic

Religion

• 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.

Births

• February 27 – Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (d. 337)
• Wei Shuo (or Mouyi), Chinese calligrapher (d. 349)

Deaths

• Shapur I (the Great), king of the Sassanid Empire
• Sabbas Stratelates, Roman general and martyr
• Sima Fu, Chinese prince and statesman (b. 180)
• Wan Yu, Chinese chancellor and politician