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Year 169 (CLXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) 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.

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Map of WA-169, Washington, USA

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.

    • Religion

  • Pertinax succeeds Alypius as Patriarch of Constantinople.
  • Theophilus of Antioch becomes Patriarch of Antioch.

    • Arts and sciences

  • Lucian demonstrates the absurdity of fatalism.

    • Births

  • Cao Hong, cousin of warlord Cao Cao and general Cao Ren (d. 232)
  • Mi Fang
  • Xu Huang, considered one of the top generals of the Kingdom of Wei (d. 227)
  • Zhang Liao, considered the top generals of the Kingdom of Wei due to his accomplishments (d. 222)

    • Deaths

  • Li Ying, Chinese scholar
  • Lucius Verus, Roman Co-emperor, in Altinum (b. 130)

    • References

    169 Wikipedia
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