{"slug": "ptolemy-i-soter", "label": "Ptolemy I Soter", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soter", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168261", "qid": "Q168261", "description": "Macedonian general, ruler of Egypt", "entries": 46, "years": 35, "span": [-366, -279], "span_label": ["367 BCE", "280 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 30}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "antigonus-i-monophthalmus", "label": "Antigonus I Monophthalmus", "shared": 16}, {"slug": "demetrius-poliorcetes", "label": "Demetrius Poliorcetes", "shared": 10}, {"slug": "ancient-egypt", "label": "Ancient Egypt", "shared": 10}, {"slug": "seleucus-i-nicator", "label": "Seleucus I Nicator", "shared": 9}, {"slug": "lysimachus", "label": "Lysimachus", "shared": 9}, {"slug": "macedon", "label": "Macedon", "shared": 8}, {"slug": "asia-minor", "label": "Asia Minor", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "alexander-the-great", "label": "Alexander the Great", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "cassander", "label": "Cassander", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "babylon", "label": "Babylon", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "pyrrhus-of-epirus", "label": "Pyrrhus of Epirus", "shared": 3}], "items": [{"year": -366, "year_label": "367 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy, Macedonian general, later founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt (d. 282 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1291620451#Births", "title": "367 BC", "revid": 1291620451, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -336, "year_label": "337 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Olympias is put aside by her husband Philip II, following Philip's marriage to a girl named Cleopatra (who is renamed Eurydice). Their son, Alexander, is effectively disowned by Philip's actions. Philip II has Ptolemy, along with other companions of his son, exiled.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373385964#Greece", "title": "337 BC", "revid": 1373385964, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -328, "year_label": "329 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Crossing the Oxus, Alexander sends his general Ptolemy in pursuit of Bessus. In the meantime, Bessus is overthrown by the Sogdian Spitamenes. Bessus is captured, flogged, and sent to Ptolemy in Bactria with the hope of appeasing Alexander. In due course, Bessus is publicly executed at Ecbatana. With the death of Bessus (Artaxerxes V), Persian resistance to Alexander the Great ceases.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356261159#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "329 BC", "revid": 1356261159, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -321, "year_label": "322 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "By custom, kings in Macedonia assert their right to the throne by burying their predecessor. To pre-empt Perdiccas, the imperial regent, Ptolemy has Alexander the Great's body brought to Memphis, Egypt and buried there in a gold sarcophagus. Ptolemy then marries Alexander's mistress, Thaïs and commences to reign as king of Egypt and the adjacent Libyan and Arabian regions.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1316405653#Egypt", "title": "322 BC", "revid": 1316405653, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": -321, "year_label": "322 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Cleomenes of Naucratis, Greek deputy to the Macedonian ruler of Egypt, Ptolemy", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1316405653#Deaths", "title": "322 BC", "revid": 1316405653, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -320, "year_label": "321 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Leaving Eumenes to hold Asia Minor against Craterus and Antigonus, Perdiccas marches against Ptolemy, but when he fails to cross the Nile he is murdered by mutinous officers. Prominent among the mutineers is Seleucus. A truce is arranged, leaving Ptolemy in power in Egypt and Seleucus in power in Babylon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359962346#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "321 BC", "revid": 1359962346, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -319, "year_label": "320 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Alexander the Great's various generals control different parts of Alexander's empire. Ptolemy controls Egypt, Seleucus controls Babylon and Syria, Antipater and his son Cassander control Macedon and Greece, Antigonus controls Phrygia and other parts of Asia Minor, Lysimachus controls Thrace and Pergamum and Eumenes controls the Cappadocia and Pontus areas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1166431272#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "320 BC", "revid": 1166431272, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -318, "year_label": "319 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Polyperchon's authority is challenged by Antipater's son Cassander, who refuses to acknowledge the new regent. With the aid of Antigonus, ruler of Phrygia, and with the support of Ptolemy and Lysimachus, Cassander seizes most of Greece including Macedonia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1222246653#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "319 BC", "revid": 1222246653, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -317, "year_label": "318 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antigonus resolves to become lord of all Asia, and in conjunction with Cassander and Ptolemy. He enters into negotiations with Eumenes; but Eumenes remains faithful to the royal house. He raises an army and forms a coalition with the satraps of the eastern provinces. He then captures Babylon from Antigonus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370481410#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "318 BC", "revid": 1370481410, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -316, "year_label": "317 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy marries Berenice, lady-in-waiting to his first wife Eurydice.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354173231#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "317 BC", "revid": 1354173231, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -314, "year_label": "315 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy's armies fight supporters of Antigonus in Cyprus. Ptolemy is able to re-conquer the island.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367539376#Cyprus", "title": "315 BC", "revid": 1367539376, "section": "Events › By place › Cyprus"}}, {"year": -313, "year_label": "314 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Aetolians enter into an alliance with Antigonus, and the League of the Islanders is established under Antigonus' hegemony. Cassander marches against them with his allies Lysimachus, Ptolemy and Seleucus and destroys the city of Agrinio.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1242240408#Greece", "title": "314 BC", "revid": 1242240408, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -313, "year_label": "314 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antigonus, the ruler of the Asian parts of the late Alexander the Great's empire, faces a coalition consisting of Cassander, the Macedonian regent; Lysimachus, the satrap of Thrace; and Ptolemy, the satrap of Egypt, who have taken the side of the ousted satrap of Babylon, Seleucus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1242240408#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "314 BC", "revid": 1242240408, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -312, "year_label": "313 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy, whose Egyptian kingdom includes Cyprus, puts down a revolt there.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300255025#Egypt", "title": "313 BC", "revid": 1300255025, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": -312, "year_label": "313 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cassander orders Dionysius (the commander of his garrison in Athens) and Demetrius of Phalerum (the tyrant of Athens) to send a fleet of 20 warships to try and recapture Lemnos. An Athenian strategos named Aristoteles is sent, ravaging the island in conjunction with Seleucus (who was sent into the Aegean by Ptolemy). After Seleucus sails away, Aristoteles is attacked by the Antigonid fleet, most of his ships being captured.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300255025#Greece", "title": "313 BC", "revid": 1300255025, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -312, "year_label": "313 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Asander sends emissaries to Ptolemy and Seleucus asking for help", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300255025#Asia_Minor", "title": "313 BC", "revid": 1300255025, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -311, "year_label": "312 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "At the end of the year, Ptolemy invades Antigonus' territories in Palestine with an army of 18,000 infantry and 4,000 cavalry. The resulting Battle of Gaza leads to a triumph for Ptolemy over Antigonus' son, Demetrius.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172925#Syria/Mesopotamia/Babylonia", "title": "312 BC", "revid": 1354172925, "section": "Events › By place › Syria/Mesopotamia/Babylonia"}}, {"year": -311, "year_label": "312 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The people of Cyrene in the Cyrenaica rise up in a revolt against Ptolemy, putting the Ptolemaic garrison, which occupies their citadel, under siege. After they execute Ptolemy's envoys, who came to bade them to cease their sedition, he sends Agis (one of his generals) with an army and Epaunetus (another general) with a fleet to put down the rebellion. Agis storms the city, captures the rebels, and sends the ringleaders to Alexandria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172925#Cyrenaica", "title": "312 BC", "revid": 1354172925, "section": "Events › By place › Cyrenaica"}}, {"year": -311, "year_label": "312 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius rallies the remnants of his army at Tripolis and summons reinforcements from the garrisons of upper Syria and Cilicia; he also writes his father, Antigonus, and urges him to send help. Meanwhile Ptolemy captures Acre, Joppa, Samaria and Sidon, and starts to besiege Tyre.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172925#Syria/Mesopotamia/Babylonia", "title": "312 BC", "revid": 1354172925, "section": "Events › By place › Syria/Mesopotamia/Babylonia"}}, {"year": -311, "year_label": "312 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy raids Antigonus' territories in Cilicia and Syria, and then sails back to Egypt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172925#Syria/Mesopotamia/Babylonia", "title": "312 BC", "revid": 1354172925, "section": "Events › By place › Syria/Mesopotamia/Babylonia"}}, {"year": -310, "year_label": "311 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy tries to occupy Syria; he himself campaigns in Coele Syria (southern Syria) while he sends Killes, one of his generals, into northern Syria to finish off the remnants of Demetrius Poliorcetes' army. Demetrius defeats Killes at Myus and Antigonus enters Syria in force. So, after only a few months, Ptolemy evacuates his forces from Syria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1230109286#Asia_Minor/Syria/Palestina", "title": "311 BC", "revid": 1230109286, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor/Syria/Palestina"}}, {"year": -309, "year_label": "310 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy attacks Cilicia, territory held by Antigonus, but is driven out by Demetrius.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351686531#Asia_Minor", "title": "310 BC", "revid": 1351686531, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -309, "year_label": "310 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "By order of Ptolemy, Nicocles of Paphos kills himself.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351686531#Cyprus", "title": "310 BC", "revid": 1351686531, "section": "Events › By place › Cyprus"}}, {"year": -308, "year_label": "309 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy arrives at Kos and sends for Ptolemaeus (the nephew of Antigonus – who has revolted against Antigonus) to join him to discuss strategy. After finding out Ptolemaeus plans to take over his army and fleet, Ptolemy forces him to commit suicide.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247027805#Greece", "title": "309 BC", "revid": 1247027805, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -308, "year_label": "309 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy I Soter personally commands a fleet that takes the coastal regions of Lycia and Caria from Antigonus I Monophthalmus, capturing the cities of Phaselis, Xanthos, Kaunos, Iasos and Myndus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247027805#Asia_Minor", "title": "309 BC", "revid": 1247027805, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -307, "year_label": "308 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy makes peace with Cassander", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358626493#Greece", "title": "308 BC", "revid": 1358626493, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -307, "year_label": "308 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy crosses from Asia Minor into Greece, where he takes possession of Corinth, Sicyon and Megara.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358626493#Greece", "title": "308 BC", "revid": 1358626493, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -305, "year_label": "306 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius Poliorcetes lands on Cyprus and besieges Menelaus, brother of Egypt's ruler, Ptolemy I Soter, at Salamis. Ptolemy Soter, coming to his brother's aid, is decisively defeated in the Battle of Salamis. The battle completely destroys the naval power of Egypt and results in the capture of Cyprus by Demetrius. This gives Demetrius' father, Antigonus I Monophthalmus, control of the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326553952#Cyprus", "title": "306 BC", "revid": 1326553952, "section": "Events › By place › Cyprus"}}, {"year": -304, "year_label": "305 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antigonus I Monophthalmus sends his son Demetrius to initiate the Siege of Rhodes, as the city has refused him armed support against Ptolemy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1225162735#Syria", "title": "305 BC", "revid": 1225162735, "section": "Events › By place › Syria"}}, {"year": -303, "year_label": "304 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Antigonus then concludes a peace treaty and an alliance with the island state, guaranteeing it autonomy and neutrality in his conflicts with Ptolemy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355692793#Greece", "title": "304 BC", "revid": 1355692793, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -303, "year_label": "304 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius Poliorcetes and the Rhodians come to a truce, with the agreement that the city should be autonomous, should keep its own revenue and that the Rhodians should be allies of Antigonus unless he is at war with Ptolemy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355692793#Greece", "title": "304 BC", "revid": 1355692793, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -302, "year_label": "303 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cassander and Lysimachus persuade Seleucus and Ptolemy to join them in trying to destroy Antigonus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172932#Greece", "title": "303 BC", "revid": 1354172932, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -301, "year_label": "302 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Following their agreement to work together to defeat Antigonus, Seleucus invades Asia Minor from Babylonia, while Ptolemy attacks Syria and Lysimachus moves into the western part of Asia Minor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372589595#Asia_Minor", "title": "302 BC", "revid": 1372589595, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -300, "year_label": "301 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The southern part of Syria is occupied by Ptolemy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326554911#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "301 BC", "revid": 1326554911, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -299, "year_label": "300 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Pyrrhus, the King of Epirus, is taken as a hostage to Egypt after the Battle of Ipsus and makes a diplomatic marriage with the princess Antigone, daughter of Ptolemy and Berenice.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129363#Egypt", "title": "300 BC", "revid": 1350129363, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": -297, "year_label": "298 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy gives his stepdaughter Theoxena in marriage to Agathocles, the tyrant of Syracuse (in south-eastern Sicily).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129361#Egypt", "title": "298 BC", "revid": 1350129361, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": -296, "year_label": "297 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy decides to support Pyrrhus of Epirus and restores him to his kingdom. At first, Pyrrhus reigns with a kinsman, Neoptolemus II of Epirus (who is a son of Cleopatra of Macedonia and a nephew of Alexander the Great), but soon he has him assassinated.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129350#Greece", "title": "297 BC", "revid": 1350129350, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -295, "year_label": "296 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy makes peace with Demetrius Poliorcetes, to whom he betrothes his daughter Ptolemais.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359921190#Greece", "title": "296 BC", "revid": 1359921190, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -293, "year_label": "294 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Archidamus IV, king of Sparta, son of Eudamidas I and grandson of Archidamus III, is defeated by Demetrius Poliorcetes of Macedonia in a battle at Mantinea. Sparta is saved only because Demetrius is called away by the threatening activities of his rivals Lysimachus and Ptolemy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129455#Greece", "title": "294 BC", "revid": 1350129455, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -289, "year_label": "290 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Berenice, wife of Ptolemy, is proclaimed queen of Egypt. Ptolemy has the city of Berenice built on the Red Sea in her honour. It becomes a great emporium for Egyptian trade with the East.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267837905#Egypt", "title": "290 BC", "revid": 1267837905, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": -287, "year_label": "288 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Macedonian King, Demetrius Poliorcetes, faces a combined attack from Lysimachus and Phyrrhus, king of Epirus, after Seleucus, Ptolemy and Lysimachus form a coalition to block plans by Demetrius to invade Asia Minor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373136664#Greece", "title": "288 BC", "revid": 1373136664, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -285, "year_label": "286 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "As Demetrius Poliorcetes and his army are chased across Asia Minor to the Taurus Mountains by the armies of Lysimachus and Seleucus, in Greece his son Antigonus meets with success. Ptolemy's fleet is driven off and Athens surrenders to Antigonus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1156902149#Greece", "title": "286 BC", "revid": 1156902149, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -284, "year_label": "285 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 26", "text": "June 26 – Egypt's Ptolemy I Soter abdicates. He is succeeded by his youngest son by his wife Berenice, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who has been co-regent for three years.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370920977#Egypt", "title": "285 BC", "revid": 1370920977, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": -283, "year_label": "284 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy I's eldest (legitimate) son, Ptolemy Keraunos, whose mother, Eurydice, the daughter of Antipater, had been repudiated by the new King Ptolemy II, flees Egypt to the court of Lysimachus, the king of Thrace, Macedon and Asia Minor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370480303#Asia_Minor", "title": "284 BC", "revid": 1370480303, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -281, "year_label": "282 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy I Soter, Macedonian military general who served under Alexander the Great and became ruler of Egypt (born c.367)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1313148199#Deaths", "title": "282 BC", "revid": 1313148199, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -279, "year_label": "280 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius of Phaleron (or Demetrius Phalereus), Athenian orator, statesman, and philosopher, who has become prominent at the court of Ptolemy I, enjoying a high reputation as an orator (b. c. 350 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1338748993#Deaths", "title": "280 BC", "revid": 1338748993, "section": "Deaths"}}]}