# 269

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This article is about the year 269. For the number, see [269 (number)](/source/269_(number)).

Calendar year

Years Millennium 1st millennium Centuries 2nd century 3rd century 4th century Decades 240s 250s 260s 270s 280s Years 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 v t e

269 by topic Leaders Political entities State leaders Religious leaders Categories Births Deaths v t e

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](/source/Postumus) (r. 260–269)

Year **269** (**[CCLXIX](/source/Roman_numerals)**) was a [common year starting on Friday](/source/Common_year_starting_on_Friday) of the [Julian calendar](/source/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](/source/Ab_urbe_condita)***). The denomination 269 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [Anno Domini](/source/Anno_Domini) [calendar era](/source/Calendar_era) became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events

### By place

#### Roman Empire

- Second Gothic invasion: The [Goths](/source/Goths) and other [German tribes](/source/Germanic_peoples) attack [Bosphorean](/source/Bosphorus) towns on the coast of the [Black Sea](/source/Black_Sea). Some 2,000 ships and 320,000 men from the [Danube](/source/Danube) enter Roman territory. Emperor [Claudius II](/source/Claudius_Gothicus) defeats the invaders and receives the title Gothicus for his triumph. Many of the prisoners will serve in the [Roman legions](/source/Roman_legion) and settle in vacant lands in the [Danubian provinces](/source/Danubian_provinces).[2]

- Claudius II travels to [Sirmium](/source/Sirmium) and prepares a war against the [Vandals](/source/Vandals), who raid [Pannonia](/source/Pannonia).

- The [Heruli](/source/Heruli) capture [Athens](/source/Athens) and raid the [Aegean Islands](/source/Aegean_Islands) as far as [Crete](/source/Crete) and [Rhodes](/source/Rhodes).

- [Marcus Cassianius Latinius Postumus](/source/Marcus_Cassianius_Latinius_Postumus) is killed by his own troops, after not allowing them to sack the city of Mogontiacum.

#### Near East

- Queen [Zenobia](/source/Zenobia) conquers [Syria](/source/Syria), [Palestine](/source/Palestine_(region)), [Lebanon](/source/Lebanon), parts of Mesopotamia and Anatolia and [Egypt](/source/Egypt_(Roman_province)), giving her control of Rome's [grain](/source/Grain) supply. The [library](/source/Library_of_Alexandria) at [Alexandria](/source/Alexandria) is partly burned during a raid by [Zabdas](/source/Zabdas), general of Zenobia.

### By topic

#### Religion

- [January 5](/source/January_5) – Pope [Felix I](/source/Pope_Felix_I) succeeds [Dionysius](/source/Pope_Dionysius) as the 26th pope of [Rome](/source/Ancient_Rome).

- [Paul of Samosata](/source/Paul_of_Samosata) is deposed as [Patriarch of Antioch](/source/Patriarch_of_Antioch) (though he is not removed until [272](/source/272)).

## Births

- [Chi Jian](/source/Chi_Jian) (or **Daohui**), Chinese general (d. [339](/source/339))

- [Murong Hui](/source/Murong_Hui), Chinese general and politician (d. [333](/source/333))

## Deaths

- [Jingū](/source/Empress_Jing%C5%AB), Japanese empress and [regent](/source/Regent) (b. [169](/source/169))

- [Justin the Confessor](/source/Justin_the_Confessor), Christian priest and martyr

- [Liu Yin](/source/Liu_Yin_(Shu_Han)) (or **Xiuran**), Chinese general and administrator

- [Lu Kai](/source/Lu_Kai) (or **Jingfeng**), Chinese general and politician (b. [198](/source/198))

- [Marcus Aurelius Marius](/source/Marcus_Aurelius_Marius), Gallic general and emperor

- [Marcus Cassianius Latinius Postumus](/source/Postumus), Gallic emperor

- [Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus](/source/Laelianus), Gallic emperor and [usurper](/source/Usurper)

- [Wang Xiang](/source/Wang_Xiang) (or **Xiuzheng**), Chinese politician (b. [185](/source/185))

- [Xin Xianying](/source/Xin_Xianying), Chinese noblewoman and advisor (b. [191](/source/191))

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Weigel, Richard D. ["Claudius II Gothicus (268-270)"](https://roman-emperors.sites.luc.edu/claudgot.htm). *De Imperatoribus Romanis*. Retrieved February 7, 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [*Encyclopedia Britannica*](https://books.google.com/books?id=EkhUMiSVCtUC&pg=PA754). 1905. p. 754. Retrieved February 7, 2024.

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