269 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	290s BC  280s BC  270s BC  – 260s BC –  250s BC  240s BC  230s BC
Years:	272 BC 271 BC 270 BC – 269 BC – 268 BC 267 BC 266 BC

269 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	269 BC CCLXVIII BC
Ab urbe condita	485
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 55
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 15
Ancient Greek era	127th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4482
Bengali calendar	−861
Berber calendar	682
Buddhist calendar	276
Burmese calendar	−906
Byzantine calendar	5240–5241
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 2428 or 2368     — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 2429 or 2369
Coptic calendar	−552 – −551
Discordian calendar	898
Ethiopian calendar	−276 – −275
Hebrew calendar	3492–3493
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−212 – −211
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2833–2834
Holocene calendar	9732
Iranian calendar	890 BP – 889 BP
Islamic calendar	917 BH – 916 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2065
Minguo calendar	2180 before ROC 民前2180年
Seleucid era	43/44 AG
Thai solar calendar	274–275

Year 269 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gallus and Pictor (or, less frequently, year 485 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 269 BC 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

Sicily

• The Mamertines, a body of Campanian mercenaries who have been employed by Agathocles, the former tyrant of Syracuse, capture the stronghold of Messana (Messina in north-eastern Sicily), from which they harass the Syracusans. The Syracusan military leader, Hieron, defeats them in a pitched battle at the Longanus River near Mylae, but Carthaginian forces intervene to prevent him from capturing Messana. His grateful countrymen then choose Hieron as their king and tyrant, to be known as Hieron II.

Births

• Attalus I Soter, ruler of Pergamon, from 241 to 197 BC. He will be the first of the Attalid dynasty to assume the title of king (d. 197 BC).