169 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC – 2nd century BC – 1st century BC
Decades:	190s BC  180s BC  170s BC  – 160s BC –  150s BC  140s BC  130s BC
Years:	172 BC 171 BC 170 BC – 169 BC – 168 BC 167 BC 166 BC

169 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	169 BC CLXVIII BC
Ab urbe condita	585
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 155
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy VI Philometor, 12
Ancient Greek era	152nd Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4582
Bengali calendar	−761
Berber calendar	782
Buddhist calendar	376
Burmese calendar	−806
Byzantine calendar	5340–5341
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 2528 or 2468     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2529 or 2469
Coptic calendar	−452 – −451
Discordian calendar	998
Ethiopian calendar	−176 – −175
Hebrew calendar	3592–3593
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−112 – −111
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2933–2934
Holocene calendar	9832
Iranian calendar	790 BP – 789 BP
Islamic calendar	814 BH – 813 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2165
Minguo calendar	2080 before ROC 民前2080年
Seleucid era	143/144 AG
Thai solar calendar	374–375

Year 169 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Philippus and Caepio (or, less frequently, year 585 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 169 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

Greece

• Macedonian forces led by Perseus of Macedon trap a Roman army led by consul Quintus Marcius Phillipus near Tempe, but the Macedonians fail to take advantage of their resulting superior tactical position.
• King Perseus asks the Seleucid King Antiochus IV to join forces with him against the danger that Rome presents to all of the Hellenic monarchs. Antiochus IV does not respond.

Roman Republic

• Lex Voconia (The Voconian Law) is introduced in Rome by the tribune, Quintus Voconius Saxa, with the support of Cato the Elder. This law prohibits those who own property valued at 100,000 sesterces from making a woman their heir.

Deaths

• Quintus Ennius (b. 239 BC), epic poet, dramatist, and satirist, the most influential of the early Latin poets, and often called the founder of Roman literature or the father of Roman poetry. His epic Annales, a narrative poem telling the story of Rome from the wanderings of Aeneas to the Ennius' own time, remains the national epic until it is later eclipsed by Virgil's Aeneid