69 BC

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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

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Births - Deaths

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Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

69 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	69 BC
Ab urbe condita	685
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1912 – -1911
Berber calendar	882
Buddhist calendar	476
Burmese calendar	-706
Chinese calendar	2568/2628 ([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) — to — 2569/2629 (子年)
Coptic calendar	-352 – -351
Ethiopian calendar	-76 – -75
Hebrew calendar	3692 – 3693
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-13 – -12
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3033 – 3034
Holocene calendar	9932
Iranian calendar	690 BP – 689 BP
Islamic calendar	711 BH – 710 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2265
Thai solar calendar	475
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Year 69 BC was a year of the pre-Julian calendar.

[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Rome

• Consuls: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus and Quintus Hortensius.
• Antiochus XIII Asiaticus is installed as King of Syria.^[1]
• Roman troops under Lucius Lucullus defeat the army of Tigranes II of Armenia in the Battle of Tigranocerta , and capture Tigranocerta, capital of Armenia.
• Parthians and Romans re-establish Euphrates as a frontier.
• Gaius Julius Caesar is a quaestor in Spain.

[edit] Egypt

• Ptolemy XII deposes Cleopatra V, and becomes sole ruler

[edit] Greece

• Kydonia, an ancient city on the island of Crete falls to Roman military forces.^[2]

[edit] Births

• January — Princess Cleopatra of Egypt, later Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt (or December, 70 BC)
• Octavia Minor, grand-niece of Julius Caesar
• Wang Zhengjun, Empress of the western Han Dynasty of China

[edit] Deaths

• Julia, wife of Gaius Marius

[edit] References