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.
• 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.

Births

• January — Princess Cleopatra of Egypt, later Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt (or December, 70 BC) (d. 30 BC)
• Octavia Minor, grand-niece 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)

References