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Events
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Macedonian Empire
★ Antigonus claims authority over most of Asia, seizes the treasury at
Susa and enters
Babylon, where
Seleucus is governor. Seleucus flees to Ptolemy in
Egypt and enters into a league with him,
Lysimachus (the ruler of
Thrace) and Cassander against Antigonus. This leads to the ''First Coalition War''.
★
Peithon consolidates his power base in the eastern part of the Empire.
Greece
★
Polyperchon flees to the
Peloponnesus, where he still controls a few strong points, and allies himself with
Antigonus, who has by now fallen out with his former allies.
★ Antigonus drives out
Cassander's
Macedonian forces of occupation from the Greek islands and forms the island cities in the
Aegean into the "League of the Islanders", preparatory to his invasion of
Greece. His ally, the city of
Rhodes, furnishes him with the necessary fleet.
★ The King of
Epirus,
Aeacides, faces a revolt from his people and they drive him from the kingdom. His son,
Phyrrhus, who is then only two years old, is saved from being killed by some faithful servants. Cassander takes control of Epirus.
★ The Macedonian port city of
Thessalonica is founded by Cassander and named after his wife
Thessaloniki.
Cyprus
★
Ptolemy's armies fight supporters of Antigonus in
Cyprus. Ptolemy is able to re-conquer the island.
Sicily
★
Agathocles, the tyrant of
Syracuse, seizes the city of
Messina.
Births
★
Aratus, Macedonian Greek mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, botanist and poet (d.
240 BC)
Deaths
★
Zhou Shen Jing Wang, King of the
Zhou Dynasty of
China
Fictional references
★ In the historical novel ''
Funeral Games'' by
Mary Renault,
Cassander visits the
Lyceum in
Athens and tells Theophrastos evil slanderous lies against
Alexander the Great.
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