962

This article is about the year 962. For the number, see 962 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	930s  940s  950s  – 960s –  970s  980s  990s
Years:	959 960 961 – 962 – 963 964 965

962 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

962 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	962 CMLXII
Ab urbe condita	1715
Armenian calendar	411 ԹՎ ՆԺԱ
Assyrian calendar	5712
Bengali calendar	369
Berber calendar	1912
Buddhist calendar	1506
Burmese calendar	324
Byzantine calendar	6470–6471
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3658 or 3598     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 3659 or 3599
Coptic calendar	678–679
Discordian calendar	2128
Ethiopian calendar	954–955
Hebrew calendar	4722–4723
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1018–1019
- Shaka Samvat	884–885
- Kali Yuga	4063–4064
Holocene calendar	10962
Iranian calendar	340–341
Islamic calendar	350–351
Japanese calendar	Ōwa 2 (応和２年)
Julian calendar	962 CMLXII
Korean calendar	3295
Minguo calendar	950 before ROC 民前950年
Seleucid era	1273/1274 AG
Thai solar calendar	1504–1505

Year 962 (CMLXII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• February 2 – Pope John XII crowns Otto I the Great as Holy Roman Emperor.
• February 13 – Pope John XII and Otto co-sign the Diploma Ottonianum.
• December 23 – A Byzantine army under Nikephoros Phokas captures Aleppo from the Arabs and plunders it.
• Indulf, King of the Scots and Picts, dies and is succeeded by Dub.

Births

• Edward the Martyr

Deaths

• Dong Yuan
• Indulf, King of the Scots and Picts (in battle)
• February – Ibn az-Zayyat, governor of Tarsus