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Name: Third War of the Diadochi

Type: Event

Start: 314 BC

End: 311 BC

Parent: Wars of the Diadochi

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Was a war between Macedonian Generals that saw Ptolemy, Lysimachus and Cassander fight against Antigonus.

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  • April 314 BC: Ptolemy, Lysimachus and Cassander were unwilling to see Antigonus reign whole Asia, thus formed an alliance against him. Antigonos marched into Pheonicia and besieged Tyre.
  • September 314 BC: Antigonus conquered Joppa and Gaza.
  • November 314 BC: Cyprus conquered by Ptolemaic Kingdom.
  • January 313 BC: In 314 BC Cassander arrived in Acarnania and reorganized the League on a truly federal basis. The island of Leucas joined the League soon after.
  • January 313 BC: Creation of the Nesiotic League under the auspices of Antigonus Monophthalmus of Macedon in c. 314/3 BC.
  • September 313 BC: Antigpnos conquers Tyros.
  • September 313 BC: Aristodemus wins the Aitolians as allies and drives Alexander from the Peloponnese.
  • November 313 BC: Demetrios is appointed governor in Syria.
  • September 312 BC: Ptolemaic march in Chalkis, Oropos, Attica, Boeotia and Locris.
  • October 312 BC: Ptolemy (the nephew of general of Antigonus I Monophthalmus) marches through Chalkis and Oropos, as well as Attica, Boeotia and Locris freeing these regions from the occupation of the Ptolemaic Kingdom.
  • October 312 BC: Ptolemy (the nephew of general of Antigonus I Monophthalmus) frees Chalkis and Oropos, and marches through Attica, Boeotia and Locris.
  • November 312 BC: Battle of Gaza: Ptolemy defeats Demetrios.
  • January 311 BC: The city fell under the brutal control of the Syracusan tyrant Agathocles. Diodorus states that in Centuripe, around 312 BC, there was a Syracusan military garrison.
  • April 311 BC: Antigonus marches into Syria, Ptolemy retreats to Egypt.
  • January 313 BC: In 314 BC, King Cassander of Macedon took the city of Stratos.
  • January 311 BC: By the end of the 4th century BC, Drangiana was part of the Seleucid Empire.
  • January 313 BC: Death of Peithon, who was one of the Diadochi. Media fell under the rule of Macedonian general Seleucus.

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  • https://www.latsis-foundation.org/content/elib/book_17/thiba_en.pdf
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