372

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	3rd century – 4th century – 5th century
Decades:	340s  350s  360s  – 370s –  380s  390s  400s
Years:	369 370 371 – 372 – 373 374 375

Statue of Xie An (China)

Year 372 (CCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Valentinian I is against the Alamanni, Quadi and Sarmatians. His subordinates are dealing with Firmus, Roman usurper, in Africa and the Picts in Britain.

Europe

• The Huns attack the Tervingi on the Dniester.

China

• Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin Feidi is dethroned as emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He is replaced by Jin Jianwendi.
• September 12 – Jin Xiaowudi, age 10, succeeds his father Jin Jianwendi. Empress Chu Suanzi serves as regent.
• The first diplomatic ties are made between the Korean kingdom of Baekje and the Chinese court of the Jin Dynasty.

By topic

Arts and sciences

• The national academy of Chinese learning, called Taehak, is made in the kingdom of Goguryeo (Korea).

Religion

• Gregory of Nyssa becomes bishop.
• Buddhism is the official religion of Gorguryeo.
• Saint Augustine adopts Manichaeism.
• Valentinian I bans Manichaean meetings.

Births

• Pei Songzhi, Chinese historian (d. 451)

Deaths

• Jin Jianwendi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 320)
• Maximus of Ephesus, Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
• Sabbas the Goth, Christian reader and saint (b. 334)