269 BC

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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 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
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269 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar269 BC
Ab urbe condita485
Armenian calendarN/A
Assyrian calendar4482
Bahá'í calendar−2112 – −2111
Bengali calendar−861
Berber calendar682
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar276
Burmese calendar−906
Byzantine calendar5240–5241
Chinese calendar辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
2428 or 2368
    — to —
壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
2429 or 2369
Coptic calendar−552 – −551
Discordian calendar898
Ethiopian calendar−276 – −275
Hebrew calendar3492–3493
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−212 – −211
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2833–2834
Holocene calendar9732
Igbo calendar−1268 – −1267
Iranian calendar890 BP – 889 BP
Islamic calendar917 BH – 916 BH
Japanese calendarN/A
Juche calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2065
Minguo calendar2180 before ROC
民前2180年
Thai solar calendar275
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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.

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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.

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