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Year 372 is a leap year that begins a Sunday.

Events
4 April: Valens is in Seleucia (from Pierie or Isaurie).
13 April: Valens is in Antioche.

Spring-Summer: Valentinien passes the Rhine to try to remove the King of the Bucinobantes Macrianus in Aquae Mattiacae, currently Wiesbaden. The Roman infantry, led by the magister Peditum Séverus, meets slave merchants, who are massacred. The magister equitum Theodosius advanced to Macrianus camp under the guidance of guides, but the indiscipline of the troops made the expedition fail.
June: Council of Cappadocia convened by Basil of Caesarea following the division of the province by Emperor Valens. The bishop of Tyane, Anthime, having proclaimed himself metropolitan, the conflict is solved by the multiplication of the bishoprics. Shortly before Gregory of Nazianze was appointed by his friend Basil bishop of Sasimes, but will not occupy the seat.

Valentinian Aequitius' manger militarum stopped the fortification of the left bank of the Danube (bridgeheads opposite Brigetio and restoration of Visegrád Fort upstream of Aquincum), following the protests of the Quades.
Firmus became leader of the Jubaleni Moorish tribe after the assassination of his brother Zammac, rebelled against the Count of Africa Romanus, who did not allow him to justify himself before Emperor Valentinian. Fearing arrest and summary execution, Firmus took the title of Augustus and raised all Caesarian Mauretania (finally in 374).
Korea: The adoption of Buddhism as the official religion of the kingdom of Kogury, and the establishment of a Confucian academy to train Kingdom officials (T'aehak) by King Sosurim.

Death in 372

Hilarion from Gaza to Cyprus, initiator of seremitis in Palestine and Syria.

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