69 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	90s BC  80s BC  70s BC  – 60s BC –  50s BC  40s BC  30s BC
Years:	72 BC 71 BC 70 BC – 69 BC – 68 BC 67 BC 66 BC

69 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

69 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	69 BC LXVIII BC
Ab urbe condita	685
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 255
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy XII Auletes, 12
Ancient Greek era	177th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4682
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−661
Berber calendar	882
Buddhist calendar	476
Burmese calendar	−706
Byzantine calendar	5440–5441
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 2628 or 2568     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 2629 or 2569
Coptic calendar	−352 – −351
Discordian calendar	1098
Ethiopian calendar	−76 – −75
Hebrew calendar	3692–3693
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−12 – −11
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3032–3033
Holocene calendar	9932
Iranian calendar	690 BP – 689 BP
Islamic calendar	711 BH – 710 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2265
Minguo calendar	1980 before ROC 民前1980年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1536
Seleucid era	243/244 AG
Thai solar calendar	474–475
Tibetan calendar	阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 58 or −323 or −1095     — to — 阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 59 or −322 or −1094

Year 69 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Consuls: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus and Quintus Hortensius.
• Antiochus XIII Asiaticus is made king of Syria.
• Roman troops under Lucius Lucullus defeat the army of Tigranes II of Armenia in the Battle of Tigranocerta. They capture Tigranocerta, capital of Armenia.
• Parthians and Romans re-establish Euphrates as a frontier.
• Gaius Julius Caesar is a quaestor in Spain.

Egypt

• Ptolemy XII deposes Cleopatra V, and becomes sole ruler.

Greece

• Kydonia, an ancient city on the island of Crete falls to Roman military forces.
• Rhodes becomes a safe place against pirates. The Rhodians are unable to stop piracy in the Aegean Sea. Delos gets the status of a free port.

Births

for more information, see Category:69 BC births.

• January – Princess Cleopatra of Egypt, later Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt (or December, 70 BC) (d. 30 BC)
• Octavia Minor, grandniece of Julius Caesar (d. 11 BC)
• Wang Zhengjun, Empress of the western Han Dynasty of China (d. 13)

Deaths

• Julia, wife of Gaius Marius (b. c. 130 BC)