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169 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 169
CLXIX
Ab urbe condita 922
Assyrian calendar 4919
Balinese saka calendar 90–91
Bengali calendar −424
Berber calendar 1119
Buddhist calendar 713
Burmese calendar −469
Byzantine calendar 5677–5678
Chinese calendar 戊申年 (Earth  Monkey)
2866 or 2659
     to 
己酉年 (Earth  Rooster)
2867 or 2660
Coptic calendar −115 – −114
Discordian calendar 1335
Ethiopian calendar 161–162
Hebrew calendar 3929–3930
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 225–226
 - Shaka Samvat 90–91
 - Kali Yuga 3269–3270
Holocene calendar 10169
Iranian calendar 453 BP – 452 BP
Islamic calendar 467 BH – 466 BH
Javanese calendar 45–46
Julian calendar 169
CLXIX
Korean calendar 2502
Minguo calendar 1743 before ROC
民前1743年
Nanakshahi calendar −1299
Seleucid era 480/481 AG
Thai solar calendar 711–712
Tibetan calendar 阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
295 or −86 or −858
     to 
阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
296 or −85 or −857

Year 169 ( 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.

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