169

This article is about the year 169. For the number, see 169 (number). For the year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar, see 169 BC. For other uses, see 169 (disambiguation).

Year 169 (CLXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Senecio and Apollinaris (or, less frequently, year 922 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 169 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century 2nd century 3rd century
Decades:	140s 150s 160s 170s 180s
Years:	166 167 168 169 170 171 172

169 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	169 CLXIX
Ab urbe condita	922
Assyrian calendar	4919
Balinese saka calendar	90–91
Bengali calendar	−424
Berber calendar	1119
Buddhist calendar	713
Burmese calendar	−469
Byzantine calendar	5677–5678
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 2866 or 2659     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 2867 or 2660
Coptic calendar	−115 – −114
Discordian calendar	1335
Ethiopian calendar	161–162
Hebrew calendar	3929–3930
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	225–226
- Shaka Samvat	90–91
- Kali Yuga	3269–3270
Holocene calendar	10169
Iranian calendar	453 BP – 452 BP
Islamic calendar	467 BH – 466 BH
Javanese calendar	45–46
Julian calendar	169 CLXIX
Korean calendar	2502
Minguo calendar	1743 before ROC 民前1743年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1299
Seleucid era	480/481 AG
Thai solar calendar	711–712
Tibetan calendar	阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 295 or −86 or −858     — to — 阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 296 or −85 or −857

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Marcomannic Wars: Germanic tribes invade the frontiers of the Roman Empire, specifically the provinces of Raetia and Moesia.
• Northern African Moors invade what is now Spain.
• Marcus Aurelius becomes sole Roman Emperor upon the death of Lucius Verus.
• Marcus Aurelius forces his daughter Lucilla into marriage with Claudius Pompeianus.
• Galen moves back to Rome for good.

China

• Confucian scholars who had denounced the court eunuchs are arrested, killed or banished from the capital of Luoyang and official life during the second episode of the Disasters of Partisan Prohibitions, which does not formally end until 184 with the onslaught of the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

By topic

Religion

• Pertinax succeeds Alypius as bishop of Byzantium.
• Theophilus of Antioch becomes patriarch of Antioch.

Arts and sciences

• Lucian demonstrates the absurdity of fatalism.

Births

• Jingū, Japanese empress and regent (d. 269)
• Zhang Liao, Chinese general (d. 222)

Deaths

• January 23 – Lucius Verus, Roman emperor (b. 130)
• September 10 – Marcus Annius Verus, Roman co-ruler
• Alypius, bishop of Byzantium (approximate date)
• Li Ying, Chinese scholar and politician