{"slug": "seleucus-i-nicator", "label": "Seleucus I Nicator", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucus_I_Nicator", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q184176", "qid": "Q184176", "description": "general of Alexander and founder of the Seleucid dynasty", "entries": 32, "years": 28, "span": [-357, -249], "span_label": ["358 BCE", "250 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 19}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "lysimachus", "label": "Lysimachus", "shared": 10}, {"slug": "ptolemy-i-soter", "label": "Ptolemy I Soter", "shared": 9}, {"slug": "antigonus-i-monophthalmus", "label": "Antigonus I Monophthalmus", "shared": 8}, {"slug": "asia-minor", "label": "Asia Minor", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "alexander-the-great", "label": "Alexander the Great", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "demetrius-poliorcetes", "label": "Demetrius Poliorcetes", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "macedon", "label": "Macedon", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "babylon", "label": "Babylon", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "thrace", "label": "Thrace", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "babylonia", "label": "Babylonia", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "chandragupta-maurya", "label": "Chandragupta Maurya", "shared": 3}], "items": [{"year": -357, "year_label": "358 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Seleucus I Nicator, Macedonian officer of Alexander the Great and founder of the Seleucid dynasty (d. 281 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1135050178#Births", "title": "358 BC", "revid": 1135050178, "section": "Births"}}, {"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": -316, "year_label": "317 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Seleucus joins Antigonus against Eumenes and recaptures Babylon.", "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": "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.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367539376#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "315 BC", "revid": 1367539376, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"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": "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": "Seleucus ceases his service to Ptolemy and returns to his former province, Babylonia. This event takes place on October 1 and becomes the starting point of the Seleucid era.", "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": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Upon entering Mesopotamia Seleucus manages to persuade some of the Macedonian veterans settled at Carrhae to join his cause. He then marches on to his old satrapy (province) of Babylonia gathering additional force along the way.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1230109286#Babylonia/Media/Susiana", "title": "311 BC", "revid": 1230109286, "section": "Events › By place › Babylonia/Media/Susiana"}}, {"year": -309, "year_label": "310 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antigonus orders Nicanor, one of his generals, to invade Babylonia from the east and his son Demetrius Poliorcetes to attack it from the west. Nicanor assembles a large force but is surprised and defeated by Seleucus at the river Tigris, and his troops are either cut to pieces or defect to the enemy. Similarly, Demetrius Poliorcetes fails to oust Seleucus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351686531#Babylonia", "title": "310 BC", "revid": 1351686531, "section": "Events › By place › Babylonia"}}, {"year": -307, "year_label": "308 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Seleucus marches east and continues his conquest of the eastern provinces of the Macedonian Empire; the so-called Upper Satrapies.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358626493#Mesopotamia/Babylonia", "title": "308 BC", "revid": 1358626493, "section": "Events › By place › Mesopotamia/Babylonia"}}, {"year": -307, "year_label": "308 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antigonus marches his main army east to confront Seleucus. The Antigonid and Seleucid armies meet somewhere in southern Mesopotamia or northern Babylonia and a battle is fought to a draw. The next morning Seleucus launches a surprise attack on Antigonus' camp and wins a simple victory. After his defeat Antigonus gives up on his ambitions to reconquer the eastern provinces.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358626493#Mesopotamia/Babylonia", "title": "308 BC", "revid": 1358626493, "section": "Events › By place › Mesopotamia/Babylonia"}}, {"year": -306, "year_label": "307 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Antigonus makes peace with Seleucus, who is left free to consolidate his empire in the east.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359452513#Babylonia", "title": "307 BC", "revid": 1359452513, "section": "Events › By place › Babylonia"}}, {"year": -304, "year_label": "305 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Seleucus, former officer of Alexander the Great, considers himself emperor of Persia. He attempts to recover lands taken by Chandragupta that had been a part of Alexander's Empire. Seleucus establishes Seleucia on the Tigris River as his capital.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1225162735#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "305 BC", "revid": 1225162735, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -303, "year_label": "304 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Mauryan emperor Chandragupta defeats Seleucus I Nicator as he tries to invade India.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355692793#India", "title": "304 BC", "revid": 1355692793, "section": "Events › By place › India"}}, {"year": -302, "year_label": "303 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Seleucus I Nicator expands his kingdom throughout Persia as far east as India, but his advance is eventually halted by Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of the Maurya dynasty of India. In a pact concluded by the two leaders, Seleucus agrees to territorial concessions in exchange for 500 war-trained elephants.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172932#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "303 BC", "revid": 1354172932, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"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": "In the Battle of Ipsus in Phrygia, the armies of Antigonus, the ruler of Syria, Asia Minor, Phoenicia and Judea, and his son Demetrius Poliorcetes are defeated by the forces of Lysimachus and Seleucus. Antigonus is killed in the battle.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326554911#Asia_Minor", "title": "301 BC", "revid": 1326554911, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -299, "year_label": "300 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Seleucus founds the city of Antioch, some 20 miles up the Orontes River, naming it after his father.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129363#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "300 BC", "revid": 1350129363, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -293, "year_label": "294 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Stratonice, daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes and wife of Seleucus marries her stepson Antiochus. Seleucus has reportedly instigated the marriage after discovering that his son by his late wife Apama was in danger of dying of lovesickness as he has fallen in love with his beautiful stepmother.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129455#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "294 BC", "revid": 1350129455, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -292, "year_label": "293 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "When an invasion of nomads threatens the eastern possessions of his realm (i.e. between the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea and the Indian Ocean), Seleucus hands over the government of these lands west of the Euphrates to his son Antiochus. Antiochus is appointed co-regent and commander-in-chief of these territories.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129456#Persia", "title": "293 BC", "revid": 1350129456, "section": "Events › By place › Persia"}}, {"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": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius Poliorcetes is deserted by his troops and surrenders to Seleucus at Cilicia, where Seleucus keeps him a prisoner.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370920977#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "285 BC", "revid": 1370920977, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -283, "year_label": "284 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Lysimachus' wife, Arsinoe, being keen to gain the succession to the kingdom of Thrace for her sons in preference to Agathocles (the eldest son of Lysimachus), intrigues against him with the help of her brother Ptolemy Keraunos. They accuse him of conspiring with Seleucus to seize the throne, and Agathocles is put to death. This atrocious deed by Lysimachus and his family arouses great indignation. Many of the cities in Asia Minor revolt and some of his most trusted friends desert him.", "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": -282, "year_label": "283 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Following Demetrius Poliorcetes' death in captivity as a prisoner of Seleucus, his son Antigonus assumes the title of King of Macedonia, though in name only, as King Lysimachus of Thrace is in control of Macedonia. Demetrius' remains are given to Antigonus and he is honoured with a grand funeral in Corinth. After this, Demetrius is interred in the town of Demetrias which he had founded.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354173238#Greece", "title": "283 BC", "revid": 1354173238, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -281, "year_label": "282 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The city of Pergamum in Asia Minor ends its allegiance to Lysimachus. Its ruler, Philetaerus, transfers his allegiance, as well as the important fortress of Pergamon and his treasury, to Seleucus, who allows him a far larger measure of independence than he had hitherto enjoyed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1313148199#Asia_Minor", "title": "282 BC", "revid": 1313148199, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -280, "year_label": "281 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "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, Macedonia, Western Anatolia and Seleucus, ruler of Eastern Anatolia, Syria, Phoenicia, Judea, Babylonia and Iran. Seleucus kills Lysimachus during the battle.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366700718#Asia_Minor", "title": "281 BC", "revid": 1366700718, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -280, "year_label": "281 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid Empire (b. c. 354 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366700718#Deaths", "title": "281 BC", "revid": 1366700718, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -249, "year_label": "250 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Erasistratus, Greek anatomist and royal physician under Seleucus I Nicator of Syria. He has founded a school of anatomy in Alexandria (b. 310 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1278897656#Deaths", "title": "250 BC", "revid": 1278897656, "section": "Deaths"}}]}