69 BC

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.Joseph Thomas, Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology, 1908, Lippincott, 2550 pages
 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.C. Michael Hogan, Cydonia, Modern Antiquarian, January 23, 2008
 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 

 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)

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