269 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	4th century BC – 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC
Decades:	290s BC 280s BC 270s BC – 260s BC – 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC
Years:	272 BC 271 BC 270 BC – 269 BC – 268 BC 267 BC 266 BC

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

**269 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	269 BC
Ab urbe condita	485
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2112 – -2111
Bengali calendar	-861
Berber calendar	682
Buddhist calendar	276
Burmese calendar	-906
Byzantine calendar	5240 – 5241
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2368/2428) — to — [[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年 (2369/2429)
Coptic calendar	-552 – -551
Ethiopian calendar	-276 – -275
Hebrew calendar	3492 – 3493
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	-212 – -211
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2833 – 2834
Holocene calendar	9732
Iranian calendar	890 BP – 889 BP
Islamic calendar	917 BH – 916 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2065
Thai solar calendar	275

Events

The Mamertines, a body of Campanian mercenaries who have been employed by Agathocles, the former tyrant of Syracuse, capture the stronghold of Messana (Messina in north-eastern Sicily), from which they harass the Syracusans. The Syracusan military leader, Hieron, defeats them in a pitched battle at the Longanus River near Mylae, but Carthaginian forces intervene to prevent him from capturing Messana. His grateful countrymen then choose Hieron as their king and tyrant, to be known as Hieron II.

Attalus I Soter, ruler of Pergamon, from 241 to 197 BC. He will be the first of the Attalid dynasty to assume the title of king (d. 197 BC).