69 BC

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Contents

Events

By place

Rome

Egypt

Births

Deaths

Events

By place

Rome

★ Consuls: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus and Quintus Hortensius.

★ Pompey installs Antiochus XIII Asiaticus as King of Syria.

★ Roman troops under Lucius Lucullus defeat the army of Tigranes II of Armenia in the Battle of Tigranocerta , and capture Tigranocerta, capital of Armenia.

★ Parthians and Romans re-establish Euphrates as a frontier.

★ Gaius Julius Caesar is a quaestor in Spain.

Egypt

★ Ptolemy XII deposes Cleopatra V, and becomes sole ruler

Births

★ January — Princess Cleopatra of Egypt, later Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt (or December, 70 BC)

★ Octavia Minor, grand-niece of Julius Caesar

★ Wang Zhengjun, Empress of the western Han Dynasty of China

Deaths

★ Julia, wife of Gaius Marius