The phrase "the same year of" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase typically appears at the end of a sentence. For example, "Famous artist Bob Ross was born in 1942, the same year of the Battle of Midway."
Squier died the same year, of pneumonia.
The same year of 1973 is also remembered as the year of a Mideast Oil Crisis.
He arrived in the Senate in 1999, the same year of President Clinton's impeachment trial.
He retired in 1979, the same year of his induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
The same year of Mr. Maazel's $3.3 million compensation, the orchestra had a record deficit of $4.6 million.
It found that while the two companies had just posted profits of £25bn, they had incurred costs in the same year of £46.5bn.
Their performances were less memorable, however, than Huston's portrayal the same year of a Roman Catholic cardinal in another film, Otto Preminger's The Cardinal.
In the same year of Tsinghua's founding, the Xinhai Revolution launched China's attempt to import and grow modernism on its ancient soil.
Alessandro Vezzosi, the museum director, told The Observer last week that in 1452, the same year of Da Vinci's birth, a law was passed in Florence that gave slave owners greater rights over their slaves.
Although the transcripts have been held by Scotland Yard since 2006, they were not used during the trial in the same year of the NOTW's royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, and the paper's regularly commissioned private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire.
Whitlam's dismissal cast such a shadow that it is easy to overlook that, in the same year of 1975, Fraser was lobbying the South African Government to investigate properly the death of Steve Biko.
