{"slug": "seleucus-ii-callinicus", "label": "Seleucus II Callinicus", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucus_II_Callinicus", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3373", "qid": "Q3373", "description": "ruler of the Seleucid Empire from 246 BC to 225 BC", "entries": 16, "years": 12, "span": [-245, -224], "span_label": ["246 BCE", "225 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 9}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "seleucid-empire", "label": "Seleucid Empire", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "anatolia", "label": "Anatolia", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "seleucid", "label": "Seleucid", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "ancient-egypt", "label": "Ancient Egypt", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "ptolemy-iii-euergetes", "label": "Ptolemy III Euergetes", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "thrace", "label": "Thrace", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "asia-minor", "label": "Asia Minor", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "antioch", "label": "Antioch", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "cilicia", "label": "Cilicia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "galatia", "label": "Galatia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "pergamum", "label": "Pergamum", "shared": 2}], "items": [{"year": -245, "year_label": "246 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antiochus II leaves Berenice in order to live again with his former wife Laodice and his son Seleucus. However, Laodice poisons him and proclaims her son as King Seleucus II Callinicus, while her supporters in Antioch kill Berenice and her children who have taken refuge at Daphne, near Antioch, in Syria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358219611#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "246 BC", "revid": 1358219611, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -243, "year_label": "244 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The war in Asia Minor and the Aegean Sea intensifies as the Achaean League allies itself to Ptolemy III Euergetes of Egypt, while Seleucus II secures two allies in the Black Sea region. Ptolemy III's armies reach as far as Bactria and the borders of India in their attacks on the Seleucid Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370482239#Greece", "title": "244 BC", "revid": 1370482239, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -242, "year_label": "243 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy III returns from Syria due to a revolt in Egypt. As a result, Seleucus II is able to regain control of his kingdom with the Egyptians being pushed out of Mesopotamia and part of Northern Syria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172722#Egypt", "title": "243 BC", "revid": 1354172722, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": -240, "year_label": "241 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Peace is finally reached between Ptolemy III and Seleucus II. Ptolemy manages to keep the Orontes River region in Syria and Antioch as well as Ephesus in Asia Minor and Thrace and Cilicia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1304843215#Egypt", "title": "241 BC", "revid": 1304843215, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": -240, "year_label": "241 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Antiochus III the Great, younger son of Seleucus II Callinicus, the 6th ruler of the Seleucid Empire (d. 187 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1304843215#Births", "title": "241 BC", "revid": 1304843215, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -238, "year_label": "239 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Seleucus II's brother Antiochus Hierax, who is governor of Seleucid Anatolia, sends an army into Syria ostensibly to assist Seleucus but actually to seize the rest of the empire. After achieving peace with Egypt, Seleucus II promptly invades Anatolia and begins the \"War of the Brothers\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1212004865#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "239 BC", "revid": 1212004865, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -235, "year_label": "236 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antiochus Hierax, supported by his mother Laodice I, allies himself with the Galatians (Celts) and two other states that are traditional foes of the Seleucid kingdom. With the aid of these forces, he inflicts a crushing defeat on his older brother Seleucus II's army at Ancyra in Anatolia. Seleucus leaves the country beyond the Taurus Mountains to his brother and the other powers of the peninsula.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368088891#Asia_Minor", "title": "236 BC", "revid": 1368088891, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -234, "year_label": "235 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antiochus Hierax defeats his brother King Seleucus II Callinicus at the Battle of Ancyra.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342603103#Asia_Minor", "title": "235 BC", "revid": 1342603103, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -231, "year_label": "232 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Seleucid king Seleucus II Callinicus undertakes an expedition into the interior of Iran to try to regain Parthia, but his efforts come to nothing. According to some sources, he is even taken prisoner for several years by the Parthian king, Arsaces I. Other sources mention that he establishes a peace with Arsaces I by recognising his sovereignty over Parthia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1319908071#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "232 BC", "revid": 1319908071, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -227, "year_label": "228 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Attalus I Soter of Pergamum defeats Antiochus Hierax (brother of the Seleucid king Seleucus II) in three battles and thereby gains control over all the Seleucid domains in Anatolia except Cilicia in the southeast.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326026286#Asia_Minor", "title": "228 BC", "revid": 1326026286, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -226, "year_label": "227 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antiochus Hierax tries to raise revolts against his brother Seleucus II in Syria and the east of the Seleucid kingdom. However, he is captured and exiled to Thrace, where he lives as a virtual prisoner.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1288758207#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "227 BC", "revid": 1288758207, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -225, "year_label": "226 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Antiochus Hierax, brother of the Seleucid King Seleucus II manages to escape from captivity in Thrace and flees to the mountains to raise an army, but he is killed by a band of Galatians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360927548#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "226 BC", "revid": 1360927548, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -225, "year_label": "226 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Seleucus II Callinicus, king of the Seleucid kingdom from 246 BC", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360927548#Deaths", "title": "226 BC", "revid": 1360927548, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -225, "year_label": "226 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Antiochus Hierax, younger brother of Seleucus II, who has fought with him over the control of the Seleucid dominions in the Middle East (b. c. 263 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360927548#Deaths", "title": "226 BC", "revid": 1360927548, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -224, "year_label": "225 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Seleucus III Ceraunus succeeds his father Seleucus II Callinicus as ruler of the Seleucid dynasty, and takes up the task of reconquering Pergamum in Anatolia from Attalus. However, Andromachus, the first general whom he sends, is decisively defeated and captured by Attalus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368090005#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "225 BC", "revid": 1368090005, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -224, "year_label": "225 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Seleucus II Callinicus, king of the Seleucid Empire (246-225 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368090005#Deaths", "title": "225 BC", "revid": 1368090005, "section": "Deaths"}}]}