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Were a series of conflicts that were fought between the generals of Alexander the Great, known as the Diadochi, over who would rule his empire following his death.
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Were a series of revolts in the Macedonian Empire after the death of Alexander the Great.
January 323 BC: Other revolts against Macedonian rule: one in Cappadocia, put down by Perdiccas and Eumenes of Cardia, and one in the eastern domains of Alexander's empire, controlled by Peiton.
Was a small conflict between two Macedonian generals that resulted in Perdiccas becoming the sole regent of the Macedonian Empire after the death fo Alexander the Great.
September 323 BC: Succession dispute in the Alexandrian army: the infantry under Meleager proclaimed Philip III. Arrhidaios becomes king against the will of the cavalry under Perdiccas- Perdiccas eliminates Meleager and is recognized as the sole supreme commander and imperial regent.
Was a war fought by a coalition of cities including Athens and the Aetolian League against Macedon and its ally Boeotia. The war broke out after the death of the King of Macedon, Alexander the Great, and was part of a series of attempts to challenge Macedonian hegemony over mainland Greece.
January 321 BC: Achaea Phthiotis, a historical region of Thessaly in ancient Greece, split away from the Boeotian League during the Lamian War.
January 321 BC: In 323 BC, Euphron the Younger, grandson of the tyrant Euphron, reintroduced democracy in Sikyon. However, the city was soon conquered by the Macedonians during the Lamian War, leading to the territory being incorporated into the Kingdom of Macedonia in -322.
October 323 BC: Fought by a coalition of cities including Athens and the Aetolian League against Macedon and its ally Boeotia. The war broke out after the death of the King of Macedon, Alexander the Great, and was part of a series of attempts to challenge Macedonian hegemony over mainland Greece.
Was a Macedonian military campaign against the Kingdom of Cappadocia that was still controlled by the Achaemenid ruler Ariarthes I.
April 322 BC: Eumenes conquered the province of Cappadocia Cappadocia, which was still held by the Persian prince Ariarathes I.
Was a war between the generals of Alexander the Great (the Diadochi). Generals Antipater, Craterus Antigonus, Menander, Asander and Ptolemy formed a coalition against Perdiccas, who was the regent of the Macedonian Empire, and after murdering him, divided the provinces of the empire in spheres of influence.
September 322 BC: Perdiccas attempted to marry Alexander's sister, Cleopatra, a marriage which would have given him a claim to the Macedonian throne. Antipater, Craterus Antigonus, Menander, Asander and Ptolemy formed a coalition against Perdiccas. Perdiccas is murdered by his own generals. New spartition of the territories with the treaty of Triparadisus. Antigonus became the de facto regnant of Asia and Antipatros of Europe. Antipatos will be succeded by Polyperchon.
Was the conflict between the coalition of Polyperchon (as regent of the Macedonian Empire), Olympias and Eumenes and the coalition of Cassander, Antigonus, Ptolemy and Lysimachus following the death of Cassander's father, Antipater (the old regent).
September 318 BC: Polyperchon, the new Regent of the Empire, who decided to march his army south to force the Greek cities to side with him against Cassander and Antigonus.
November 317 BC: Polyperchon retreated to Epyrus and along with Olympia was able to reinvade Macedonia.
November 316 BC: Antigonus bribed the Argyraspides who arrested and handed over Eumenes. Antigonus had Eumenes and a couple of his officers executed. With Eumenes's death, the war in the eastern part of the Empire ended.
April 316 BC: Cassander's victory: Olympias surrenders and is executed; Alexander IV Aigos and Roxane are placed under house arrest, Polyperchon retreats to the Peloponnese.
September 317 BC: From Athens Polyperchon marched on Megalopolis which had sided with Cassander and besieged the city. The siege failed and he had to retreat losing a lot of prestige and most of the Greek cities.
November 318 BC: Eumenes secured the loyalty of 6,000 of Alexander's veterans, the Argyraspides and the Hypaspists, who were stationed in Cilicia.
September 318 BC: Eumenes is allowed to withdraw from Nora and immediately allies himself with Polyperchon. Eumenes occupies Phenicia and builds a fleet.
6.1.Consolidation of the borders after the Second War of the Diadochi
Were a series of events and military operations after the Second war of the Diadochi that led to the consolidation of the borders between the successor states of the Macedonian Empire.
April 315 BC: The kings of Cyprus, including Praxippos of Lapithos and Kyrenia, the Poumiaton of Kition and Stasioikos of Marion, allied themselves with Antigonus.
April 315 BC: After the death of Alexander the Great (323 BC), Cyrenaica became subject to the Ptolemaic dynasty.
April 315 BC: Lysimachus controlled Thrace.
April 315 BC: Ptolemy controls Egypt, Syria, Cyrene and Cyprus.
April 315 BC: Cassander controlled Macedon and large parts of Greece.
January 314 BC: Ptolemy sent military support to his allies, providing troops under the command of Seleucus and Menelaus. Lapithos-Kyrenia was occupied after a siege and Marion capitulated. Diodorus Siculus tells us that Amathus was forced to provide hostages, while Kition was laid siege to in about 315 BC.
April 315 BC: Antigonus controlled Asia Minor and the eastern provinces.
Was a war between Macedonian Generals that saw Ptolemy, Lysimachus and Cassander fight against Antigonus.
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.
Were a series of events and military operations after the Third war of the Diadochi that led to the consolidation of the borders between the successor states of the Macedonian Empire.
January 312 BC: Thebes was liberated by Kassandros and in 315 BC rebuilt with the help of the Athenians.
November 301 BC: Demetrios is the sea king and repels Lysimachus from Cilicia.
November 301 BC: Demetrios conquers western Anatolia.
November 301 BC: Mithridates Ktistes establishes himself as ruler in the Pontic region.
January 297 BC: Demetrios conquers Gaza and Samaria from Ptolemy.
January 296 BC: Zipoites establishes the Kingdom of Bithynia.
January 293 BC: Cassander died in 298 BC, and his sons, Antipater and Alexander, proved weaklings. After quarreling with his older brother, Alexander V called in Demetrius who invaded, killed Alexander, and seized control of Macedon for himself.
January 293 BC: Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, after Pyrrhus took control of the border region of Ambracia.
January 293 BC: While Demetrius consolidated his control of mainland Greece, his outlying territories were invaded and captured by Lysimachus, who recovered western Anatolia.
January 293 BC: Ptolemy I recovers Cyprus, eastern Cilicia, and Lycia.
January 292 BC: Demetrios (Antigonid Dynasty) occupies Thrace.
February 292 BC: Demetrios (Antigonid Dynasty) leave Thrace.
January 291 BC: Pyrrhus marches through Thessaly to Thermopylae.
January 289 BC: Demetrius I of Macedon conquers Thebes. The city was put under siege by King Demetrius I of Macedon after it had revolted against Macedonian rule.
January 288 BC: Thebes was occupied by Demetrius of Macedon after a revolt. The Macedonian army left Thebes after executing a few leaders of the rebellion.
January 299 BC: Philip V of Macedon seized Zakynthos in the early 3rd century BC.
January 293 BC: In 294 BC, after forty-three years of semi-autonomy under Macedonian suzerainty, Ambracia was given by the son of Cassander to Pyrrhus, king of Epirus.
February 291 BC: Counter-offensive against Pyrrhus by Antigonid ruler Demetrius, who conquers Boeotia and passes through Epirus.
January 295 BC: Supported by Ptolemy, Pyrrhos regains control of Epiros.
January 293 BC: Cyprus came once again under Ptolemaic control in 294 BC.
January 293 BC: Seleucus took most of Cilicia.
Was a conflict fought in 311-309 BC between Antigonus I Monophthalmus and Seleucus I Nicator, ending in a victory for Seleucus.
June 311 BC: The Babylonian War was a conflict fought between the Diadochi kings Antigonus I Monophthalmus and Seleucus I Nicator. Seleucus, reinforced with Macedonian veterans from Harran, reached his former capital Babylon. He was soon recognized as the new ruler.
June 310 BC: News of the defeat of Nicanor and Euagoras must have reached Antigonus at about the time of his signing the Peace of the Dynasts (December 311 BC). He ordered his son Demetrius Poliorcetes to restore order; he arrived in the early spring of 310 BC.
June 310 BC: Seleucus drives Demetrios out of Babylon.
September 310 BC: The forces of general Antigonus leave Babylon.
November 310 BC: Without any problems, Seleucus could move through the Zagros Mountains, occupy Ecbatana (the capital of Media), and continue to Susa (the capital of Elam). He now controlled southern Iraq and the greater part of Iran.
April 309 BC: Antigonos is repulsed from Babylon.
January 308 BC: The victor now moved to the east and reached the Indus valley, where he concluded a treaty with Chandragupta Maurya. The Mauryan emperor received the eastern parts of the Seleucid Empire, which included Afghanistan, Pakistan and west India, and gave Seleucus a formidable force of five hundred war elephants.
December 311 BC: Antigonus' satraps in Media and Aria, Nicanor and Euagoras, now decided to intervene with an army of 10,000 infantry and 7,000 horsemen, but Seleucus and an army of 3,000 infantry and 400 cavalry had been waiting for them near the Tigris since September. By hiding his men in one of the marshes and attacking by night, Seleucus was able to defeat the Macedonian soldiers in the army of Nicanor and Euagoras, after which the Iranian soldiers decided to side with the ruler of Babylonia.
Was a war between Macedonian generals that saw Ptolemy, Lysimachus and Cassander fight against Antigonus and Demetrios.
September 308 BC: Ptolemy seizes Sicyon and Corinth.
January 307 BC: In 308 the Nesiotic League was freed by Ptolemy I of Egypt.
September 307 BC: Demetrios frees Megara.
April 304 BC: Military offensive of Cassander in Aetolia and in Athens.
September 304 BC: Demetrios (Antigonid Dynasty) liberates Chalkidiki, Boeotia, and Aetolia.
January 302 BC: In 303 BC Sicyon was conquered by Demetrius Poliorcetes.
November 302 BC: Pyrrhus of Epirus was dethroned by Cassander of Macedonia.
January 301 BC: Demetrius forced to leave Thessaly.
April 301 BC: Ptolemy annexes Coile-Syria.
September 301 BC: Battle of Ipsos: Antigonus falls, Seleucus annexes Syria and Cappadocia, Lysimachus annexes Hellespont, Phrygia and Ionia. Cilicia went to Cassander's brother Pleistarchus (as an indipendent reign). Demetrius, retained control of Cyprus, the Peloponnese, and many of the Aegean islands, as well as the Aegean coast.
April 306 BC: Battle of Salamis: Demetrios defeats Ptolemy by land and sea and conquers Cyprus.
January 307 BC: In the time of the Diadochi, Megara came under the rule of Ptolemy I in 308.
January 307 BC: When the Macedonian commander Alexander was murdered in Sicyon in 314 BC, his wife Cratesipolis took control of the city and ruled it for six years, until she was induced by king Ptolemy I to hand it over to the Egyptians.
January 301 BC: But now Cassander called in aid from his allies, and Anatolia was invaded by Lysimachus.
November 302 BC: Cassander's offensive in Thessaly against Demetrios.
Was a war between Macedonian Generals that saw Ptolemy, Lysimachus and Seleucus fight against Demetrios.
January 286 BC: In -287, Ptolemy I Soter, the founder of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt, took over the territories of Sidon and Tyre. These cities were important Phoenician ports known for their trade and naval power. Ptolemy's conquest further expanded his influence in the region.
January 285 BC: Demetrius was ultimately captured by Seleucus, drinking himself to death two years later. Lysimachus and Pyrrhus divided the Kingdom between them.
January 286 BC: The Nesiotic League in Macedonia was under the control of the Antigonid dynasty until around 287 BC. At that time, it came under the rule of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, which was founded by Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander the Great's generals.
Were a series of events and military operations after the Fifth war of the Diadochi that led to the consolidation of the borders between the successor states of the Macedonian Empire.
January 284 BC: Pyrrhos was a Greek general and statesman who ruled the Kingdom of Epirus. Antigonos Gonatas was a Macedonian nobleman and king of Macedonia. Lysimachus was a general and successor of Alexander the Great, ruling over Thrace and parts of Asia Minor. In -285, Lysimachus defeated Pyrrhos and Antigonos Gonatas, annexing Macedonia to his own kingdom.
January 284 BC: Pyrrhos was a Greek general and statesman who ruled Epirus, while Antigonos Gonatas was a Macedonian king. Lysimachus was a general under Alexander the Great who later became king of Thrace and Macedonia. The defeat of Pyrrhos and Antigonos Gonatas by Lysimachus in -285 led to the annexation of Macedonia by the Kingdom of Lysimachus.
Was a war between Macedonian Generals that saw Lysimachus fight against Seleucus.
January 281 BC: In 282 BC the Tarentines, who were drunkenly celebrating parties in honor of the god Dionysus in a theater overlooking the sea, escorted by the Roman ships (of merchants), believed that they were advancing against them and attacked them. After the attack on the Roman fleet, the Tarentines, realizing that their reaction to the Roman provocation could lead to war and convinced of Rome's hostile attitude, marched against Thurii, which was taken and sacked. The Tarentines, who did not respect the following embassies from Rome, thus began the war, also involving Epirus, called to help by the Tarentines against the Romans.
April 281 BC: Seleukos is murdered by Ptolemy Keraunos, who takes power in Macedonia.
April 281 BC: The remote part of Lysander's kingdom is supposed to have been disappeared completely.
April 281 BC: Seleucus, after appointing his son Antiochus ruler of his Asian territories, defeated and killed Lysimachus at the Battle of Corupedium in Lydia.
Selected Sources
Bunson, M.R. (2014): Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, Infobase Publishing, p. 314
https://www.latsis-foundation.org/content/elib/book_17/thiba_en.pdf
Wars of the Diadochi
