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Events
By place
Asia Minor
★ The
Battle of Corupedium in
Lydia is the last battle of the
Diadochi, the rival successors to
Alexander the Great. It is fought between the armies of
Lysimachus, King of
Thrace and
Macedonia, and
Seleucus, ruler of Eastern
Anatolia,
Syria,
Phoenicia,
Judaea,
Babylonia and
Iran. Seleucus kills Lysimachus during the battle.
★ Following the Battle of Corupedium, Lysimachus' widow,
Arsinoe, flees to
Cassandrea, a city in northern
Greece, where she marries her half-brother
Ptolemy Keraunos. This proves to be a serious misjudgement, as Ptolemy Keraunus promptly kills two of her sons, though the third is able to escape. Arsinoe flees again, this time to
Alexandria in
Egypt.
Greece
★ Seleucus takes over Thrace and then tries to seize Macedonia. However, he falls into a trap near
Lysimachia,
Thrace, set by Ptolemy Keraunos, one of the sons of Ptolemy I and Arsinoe II's half brother, who murders Seleucus and takes Macedonia for himself.
★
Cineas, a
Thessalian serving as chief adviser to King
Pyrrhus of Epirus, after visiting
Rome attempts, without success, to dissuade Pyrrhus from invading southern
Italy.
Syria
★ Seleucus is succeeded as ruler of the
Seleucid empire by
Antiochus. He is immediately beset by revolts in
Syria (probably instigated by
Ptolemy II of
Egypt) and by independence movements in northern
Anatolia.
★ Although he has only a few bases in
Greece,
Antigonus II Gonatas lays claim to Macedonia. His claim is disputed by Antiochus I.
Births
★
Deaths
★
Lysimachus, King of
Thrace and
Macedon (b. c.
360 BC)
★
Seleucus I Nicator, King of
Syria and
Iran and founder of the
Seleucid dynasty (b. c.
354 BC)