269 BC

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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
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269 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 269 BC
Ab urbe condita 485
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -2112 – -2111
Berber calendar 682
Buddhist calendar 276
Burmese calendar -906
Chinese calendar 2368/2428
([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年)
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2369/2429
([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年)
Coptic calendar -552 – -551
Ethiopian calendar -276 – -275
Hebrew calendar 3492 – 3493
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat -213 – -212
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 2833 – 2834
Holocene calendar 9732
Iranian calendar 890 BP – 889 BP
Islamic calendar 917 BH – 916 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 2065
Thai solar calendar 275
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  • 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.

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