69 BC

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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Rat壬子( at the beginning of the year Metal Pig辛亥)

Syria: 243/244

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• An agreement with the Roman Empire secures the Parthians the dominance east of the Euphrates.

Disasters

• Devastating earthquake in Antioch.

Born

• Hyeokgeose, Korean king († 4 AD)
• Cleopatra VII, Queen of Ptolemaic Egypt ( † 30 BC )

• 69 BC: Octavia Thurina Minor, wife of Marcus Antonius († 11 BC)

Died

• Cleopatra V., Ptolemaic Queen of Egypt

• 69 BC: Cornelia, Roman patrician, wife of Caesar (c. 94 BC)