369

Year 369 (CCCLXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries: 3rd century – 4th century – 5th century
Decades: 330s  340s  350s  – 360s –  370s  380s  390s
Years: 366 367 368 – 369 – 370 371 372
Wulfila converts the Goths to Christianity

Events

Roman Empire
  • Spring – Emperor Valens crosses the Danube at Noviodunum (Romania), and attacks the Gothic tribes (Greuthungi and Tervingi). Their king Athanaric is defeated and ‘forced to flee for his life’. He asks for peace. The treaty includes free trade and an agreement to provide troops for tribute.
  • Fritigern becomes king of the Visigoths. He asked Valens and the Thracian army for help. They end the civil war, and Fritigern becomes Christian.

Persia
  • Persian King Shapur II occupies the pro-Roman kingdom of Armenia.

Asia
  • Chinese troops of the Jin Dynasty are defeated by Former Yan of the Xianbei.
  • Goguryeo invades Baekje.

Arts and sciences
  • Wulfila makes a Gothic alphabet composed of letters based on Greek and Roman letters, as well as some Germanic runes. He converts the Goths to ("Arian") Christianity.

Births
  • Huan Xuan, warlord and emperor of the Jin Dynasty (d. 404)
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