69

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	30s  40s  50s  – 60s –  70s  80s  90s
Years:	66 67 68 – 69 – 70 71 72

69 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

69 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	69 LXIX
Ab urbe condita	822
Assyrian calendar	4819
Bengali calendar	−524
Berber calendar	1019
Buddhist calendar	613
Burmese calendar	−569
Byzantine calendar	5577–5578
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 2765 or 2705     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 2766 or 2706
Coptic calendar	−215 – −214
Discordian calendar	1235
Ethiopian calendar	61–62
Hebrew calendar	3829–3830
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	125–126
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3170–3171
Holocene calendar	10069
Iranian calendar	553 BP – 552 BP
Islamic calendar	570 BH – 569 BH
Julian calendar	69 LXIX
Korean calendar	2402
Minguo calendar	1843 before ROC 民前1843年
Seleucid era	380/381 AG
Thai solar calendar	611–612

Year 69 (LXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 822 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 69 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.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• The Year of the Four Emperors: After Nero's death, Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian succeed each other as emperor during the year.
• January 1 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuses to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebelled and proclaims Vitellius as emperor.
• January 10 – Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is adopted by Galba and appointed to deputy Roman Emperor.
• January 15 – Galba and his adopted son Piso are murdered by the Praetorian Guard on the Roman Forum.
• Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaims himself emperor, and reigns for three months before committing suicide.
• Marcus Trebellius Maximus, governor of Britannia, is forced the flee to Gaul after a mutiny of Legio XX Valeria Victrix at Deva Victrix (Chester).
• April 14 – First Battle of Bedriacum: Vitellius defeats Otho's legions; Otho commits suicide.
• April 17 – After the Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes emperor.
• Marcus Vettius Bolanus becomes the new governor of Britain and faced a second insurrection of Venutius, king of the Brigantes.
• July 1 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as emperor.
• August 1 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
• German warbands cross over to join the revolt and attack the fortress at Mainz.
• The Batavians attack Roman forts on the Rhine frontier; Fectio and Traiectum (modern Utrecht) are destroyed.
• In Gallia Belgica cohors II Tungrorum, raised from the inhabitants of Atuatuca Tungrorum in the north-west of the Ardennes Forest revolt against the Romans.
• The Danubian legions of Raetia and Moesia proclaims Vespasian as emperor.
• October 24 – Second Battle of Bedriacum: Flavians under Antonius Primus defeat the Vitellians.
• December 22 – Vitellius is captured and murdered by the Gemonian stairs. Vespasian becomes emperor.
• Judea: The Jewish Revolt – Vespasian lays siege to Jerusalem, the city is captured the following year by his son Titus.
• Josephus, Jewish rebel leader, is dragged before Vespasian and becomes his historian. He "prophesied" him his elevation to the purple.
• Legio I Macriana liberatrix is disbanded.
• The Flavian dynasty starts.

Deaths

• January – Locusta
• January 15 – Galba, Roman emperor (b. 3 BC)
• April 16 – Otho, Roman emperor (b. 32)
• June 29 – Saint Peter, Apostle and First Bishop of Rome
• December 22 – Vitellius, Roman emperor (b. 15)
• Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus, deputy Roman emperor (b. 38)
• Sporus, Roman freedman

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