269

This article is about the year 269. For the number, see 269 (number).

Year 269 (CCLXIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Claudius and Paternus^[1] (or, less frequently, year 1022 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 269 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

269 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	269 CCLXIX
Ab urbe condita	1022
Assyrian calendar	5019
Balinese saka calendar	190–191
Bengali calendar	−325 – −324
Berber calendar	1219
Buddhist calendar	813
Burmese calendar	−369
Byzantine calendar	5777–5778
Chinese calendar	戊子年 (Earth Rat) 2966 or 2759     — to — 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 2967 or 2760
Coptic calendar	−15 – −14
Discordian calendar	1435
Ethiopian calendar	261–262
Hebrew calendar	4029–4030
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	325–326
- Shaka Samvat	190–191
- Kali Yuga	3369–3370
Holocene calendar	10269
Iranian calendar	353 BP – 352 BP
Islamic calendar	364 BH – 363 BH
Javanese calendar	148–149
Julian calendar	269 CCLXIX
Korean calendar	2602
Minguo calendar	1643 before ROC 民前1643年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1199
Seleucid era	580/581 AG
Thai solar calendar	811–812
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Rat) 395 or 14 or −758     — to — ས་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Earth-Ox) 396 or 15 or −757

Emperor Postumus (r. 260–269)

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Second Gothic invasion: The Goths and other German tribes attack Bosphorean towns on the coast of the Black Sea. Some 2,000 ships and 320,000 men from the Danube enter Roman territory. Emperor Claudius II defeats the invaders and receives the title Gothicus for his triumph. Many of the prisoners will serve in the Roman legions and settle in vacant lands in the Danubian provinces.^[2]
• Claudius II travels to Sirmium and prepares a war against the Vandals, who raid Pannonia.
• The Heruli capture Athens and raid the Aegean Islands as far as Crete and Rhodes.
• Marcus Cassianius Latinius Postumus is killed by his own troops, after not allowing them to sack the city of Mogontiacum.

Near East

• Queen Zenobia conquers Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, parts of Mesopotamia and Anatolia and Egypt, giving her control of Rome's grain supply. The library at Alexandria is partly burned during a raid by Zabdas, general of Zenobia.

By topic

Religion

• January 5 – Pope Felix I succeeds Dionysius as the 26th pope of Rome.
• Paul of Samosata is deposed as Patriarch of Antioch (though he is not removed until 272).

Births

• Chi Jian (or Daohui), Chinese general (d. 339)
• Murong Hui, Chinese general and politician (d. 333)

Deaths

• Jingū, Japanese empress and regent (b. 169)
• Justin the Confessor, Christian priest and martyr
• Liu Yin (or Xiuran), Chinese general and administrator
• Lu Kai (or Jingfeng), Chinese general and politician (b. 198)
• Marcus Aurelius Marius, Gallic general and emperor
• Marcus Cassianius Latinius Postumus, Gallic emperor
• Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus, Gallic emperor and usurper
• Wang Xiang (or Xiuzheng), Chinese politician (b. 185)
• Xin Xianying, Chinese noblewoman and advisor (b. 191)