There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 1872 BC was a common year starting on a Tuesday, just like 1964 BC, 1958 BC, 1947 BC, 1936 BC, 1930 BC, 1919 BC, 1908 BC, 1902 BC, 1891 BC, 1880 BC in the century before it and 1863 BC, 1852 BC, 1846 BC, 1835 BC, 1824 BC, 1818 BC, 1807 BC, 1796 BC, 1790 BC, 1779 BC in the next.
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icons indicate the phases of the moon and appear only for dates in the Gregorian calendar, i.e. after 14 October 1582. The Chinese calendar is available only from 1645 to 2644, the first millenium since the last reform. The coloured columns mark the Sundays, the last day of the week per standard ISO-8601.
The normal calendar page for the current /year?2013 contains an introduction to the intriguing history of the year as we know it. The Calendar Converter has more detail. The so called Perpetual Calendar uses a trick from before the age of computers to find the weekday for any Gregorian date. Also see an overview of all historical events in the last six thousand years.