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Year '''169''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CLXIX]]''') was a [[common year starting on Saturday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Senecio and Apollinaris''' (or, less frequently, '''year 922 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 169 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 ==
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=== By place ===
==== Roman Empire ====
* [[Marcomannic Wars]]: [[Germanic tribes]] invade the frontiers of the [[Roman Empire]], specifically the provinces of [[Raetia]] and [[Moesia]].
* Northern African [[Moors]] invade what is now [[Spain]].
* [[Marcus Aurelius]] becomes sole [[Roman Emperor]] upon the death of [[Lucius Verus]].
* Marcus Aurelius forces his daughter [[Lucilla]] into marriage with [[Claudius Pompeianus]].  
* [[Galen]] moves back to [[Ancient Rome|Rome]] for good.

==== China ====
* [[Confucian]] scholars who had denounced the court [[eunuch]]s are arrested, killed or banished from the capital of [[Luoyang]] and official life during the second episode of the [[Disasters of Partisan Prohibitions]], which does not formally end until [[184]] with the onslaught of the [[Yellow Turban Rebellion]].

=== By topic ===

==== Religion ====
* [[Pertinax of Byzantium|Pertinax]] succeeds [[Alypius of Byzantium|Alypius]] as bishop of [[Byzantium]].
* [[Theophilus of Antioch]] becomes patriarch of [[Church of Antioch|Antioch]].

==== Arts and sciences ====
* [[Lucian]] demonstrates the absurdity of fatalism.
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== Births ==
* [[Empress Jingū|Jingū]], Japanese empress and [[regent]] (d. [[269]])
* [[Zhang Liao]], Chinese general (d. [[222]])

== Deaths ==
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Lucius Verus]], Roman emperor (b. [[AD 130|130]]){{r|"Potter 2009"}}
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Marcus Annius Verus Caesar|Marcus Annius Verus]], Roman co-ruler 
* [[Alypius of Byzantium|Alypius]], bishop of [[Byzantium]] (approximate date)
* [[Li Ying (Eastern Han)|Li Ying]], Chinese scholar and politician

== References ==
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<ref name="Potter 2009">{{cite book
| last        = Potter
| first       = D.
| title       = Emperors of Rome: the story of imperial Rome from Julius Caesar to the last emperor
| publisher   = Quercus
| year        = 2009
| url         = https://books.google.com/books?id=Sn4bAQAAMAAJ
| page        = 91
| isbn = 9781847240101
| quote       = ... So began the joint reign of Marcus Aurelius (ad 121–180) and Lucius Verus (ad 130–169), an event unparalleled in ...
}}</ref>

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