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 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
Byzantine calendar	5440 – 5441
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2568/2628) — to — 子年 (2569/2629)
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.

Events

By place

Rome

• Consuls: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus (died 55 BC) 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.

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.^[2]

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

Deaths

• Julia, wife of Gaius Marius

References