69 BC Facts for Kids

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 various 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

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.

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.

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)