1969

1969 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1969; MCMLXIX
Ab urbe condita	2722
Armenian calendar	1418; ԹՎ ՌՆԺԸ
Assyrian calendar	6719
Bahá'í calendar	125–126
Balinese saka calendar	1890–1891
Bengali calendar	1376
Berber calendar	2919
British Regnal year	17 Eliz. 2 – 18 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2513
Burmese calendar	1331
Byzantine calendar	7477–7478
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey); 4665 or 4605; — to —; 己酉年 (Earth Rooster); 4666 or 4606
Coptic calendar	1685–1686
Discordian calendar	3135
Ethiopian calendar	1961–1962
Hebrew calendar	5729–5730
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2025–2026
- Shaka Samvat	1890–1891
- Kali Yuga	5069–5070
Holocene calendar	11969
Igbo calendar	969–970
Iranian calendar	1347–1348
Islamic calendar	1388–1389
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 44; (昭和４４年)
Javanese calendar	1900–1901
Juche calendar	58
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4302
Minguo calendar	ROC 58; 民國58年
Nanakshahi calendar	501
Thai solar calendar	2512
Tibetan calendar	阳土猴年; (male Earth-Monkey); 2095 or 1714 or 942; — to —; 阴土鸡年; (female Earth-Rooster); 2096 or 1715 or 943

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s – 1960s – 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years:	1966 1967 1968 – 1969 – 1970 1971 1972

1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade.

Events

January 12 – Led Zeppelin's first album is released.
January 20 – Richard Nixon becomes President of the United States, after Lyndon Johnson.
February 3 – Yasser Arafat becomes Palestinian Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
April 9 – Around 300 students take over Harvard University, because they do not like the Vietnam War being fought.
May 10 – Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam.
May 20 – National Guard helicopters spray skin-stinging powder on Vietnam War protesters in California.
May 31 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" at their "Bed-In" in Montreal.
June 8 – Nixon announces that 25,000 US troops will start to leave Vietnam before September.
July 8 – As promised, some US troops begin to leave Vietnam.
July 16–24 – The Apollo 11 mission makes Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin the first people on the Moon.
August 9 – The Manson Family murders the actress Sharon Tate and members of her family.
August 15 – The Woodstock music festival starts in Upstate New York.
August 17 – Hurricane Camille hits Mississippi, killing 248 people.
August 31 – Boxer Rocky Marciano dies in a plane crash on the day before his 46th birthday.
September 1 – King Idris I of Libya is removed from power in a coup.
September 7 – Monty Python's Flying Circus airs for the first time on British television.
October 15 – Hundreds of thousands of people across the US protest against the Vietnam War by not going to work.
October 21 – Willy Brandt becomes the first SPD-Chancellor of Germany
November 9 – A group of American Indians takes over Alcatraz Island and holds it for 19 months.
November 10 - Sesame Street first aired.
November 13 – Up to 500,000 anti-war protesters march and protest in Washington DC.
December 1 – The United States holds the first "draft lottery", to pick who is going to be sent to fight in Vietnam.