369

369 (CCCLXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 369th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 369th year of the 1st millennium, the 69th year of the 4th century, and the 10th and last year of the 360s decade. As of the start of 369, the Gregorian calendar was 1 day ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Wulfila converts the Goths to Christianity

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	3rd century – 4th century – 5th century
Decades:	330s  340s  350s  – 360s –  370s  380s  390s
Years:	366 367 368 – 369 – 370 371 372

369 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	369 CCCLXIX
Ab urbe condita	1122
Assyrian calendar	5119
Balinese saka calendar	290–291
Bengali calendar	−224
Berber calendar	1319
Buddhist calendar	913
Burmese calendar	−269
Byzantine calendar	5877–5878
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3065 or 3005     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3066 or 3006
Coptic calendar	85–86
Discordian calendar	1535
Ethiopian calendar	361–362
Hebrew calendar	4129–4130
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	425–426
- Shaka Samvat	290–291
- Kali Yuga	3469–3470
Holocene calendar	10369
Iranian calendar	253 BP – 252 BP
Islamic calendar	261 BH – 260 BH
Javanese calendar	251–252
Julian calendar	369 CCCLXIX
Korean calendar	2702
Minguo calendar	1543 before ROC 民前1543年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1099
Seleucid era	680/681 AG
Thai solar calendar	911–912
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dragon) 495 or 114 or −658     — to — ས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Snake) 496 or 115 or −657

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Spring – Emperor Valens crosses the Danube at Noviodunum (Romania), and attacks the Gothic tribes (Greuthungi and Tervingi). Their king Athanaric is defeated and ‘forced to flee for his life’. He asks for peace. The treaty includes free trade and an agreement to provide troops for tribute.
• Fritigern becomes king of the Visigoths. He asked Valens and the Thracian army for help. They end the civil war, and Fritigern becomes Christian.

Persia

• Persian King Shapur II occupies the pro-Roman kingdom of Armenia.

Asia

• Chinese troops of the Jin Dynasty are defeated by Former Yan of the Xianbei.
• Goguryeo invades Baekje.

By topic

Arts and sciences

• Wulfila makes a Gothic alphabet composed of letters based on Greek and Roman letters, as well as some Germanic runes. He converts the Goths to ("Arian") Christianity.

Births

• Huan Xuan, warlord and emperor of the Jin Dynasty (d. 404)

Deaths