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 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

**169 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	169 BC
Ab urbe condita	585
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2012 – -2011
Bengali calendar	-761
Berber calendar	782
Buddhist calendar	376
Burmese calendar	-806
Byzantine calendar	5340 – 5341
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2468/2528) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2469/2529)
Coptic calendar	-452 – -451
Ethiopian calendar	-176 – -175
Hebrew calendar	3592 – 3593
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	-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
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2165
Thai solar calendar	375

Events

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.

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.

Quintus Ennius, 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 (b. 239 BC)