Important Battles in Hellenistic History: Dates, Places, Participants, and Outcomes
Ø 301 BCE à Battle of Ipsus
Ø 279 BCE à Gauls invade Macedonia and Greece
Ø 277 BCE à Antigonus II defeats the Gauls at Lysimacheia and becomes King of Macedonia
Ø 274 – 271 BCE à First Syrian War between Ptolemy II and Antiochus I
Ø 274 BCE à Pyrrhus invades Macedonia
Ø 268 – 261 BCE à Chremonidean War
Ø 260 – 253 BCE à Second Syrian War between Antiochus II and Ptolemy II
Ø 249 BCE à Alexander of Corinth revolts from Antigonus II
Ø 246 – 241 BCE à Third Syrian (Laodicean) War between Ptolemy III and Seleucus II
Ø 241 BCE à War between Seleucus II and his brother Antiochus Hierax
Ø 239 BCE à War between Macedonia and the Achaean and Aetolian Leagues begins
Ø 238 – 227 BCE à War of Attalus I against Hierax and against the Galatians
Ø 229 BCE à War breaks out between Sparta and Achaea
Ø 227 BCE à Cleomenes’ revolution at Sparta
Ø 220 BCE à Antiochus III suppresses the pretender Molon
Ø 219 – 217 BCE à Fourth Syrian War between Antiochus III and Ptolemy IV
Ø 211 BCE à Alliance between Aetolia and Rome initiates First Macedonian War
Ø 202 – 200 BCE à Fifth Syrian War between Antiochus III and Ptolemy V
Ø 200 BCE à Battle of Panium, Antiochus III seizes Coele-Syria
Ø 200 – 197 BCE à Second Macedonian War
Ø 192 – 188 BCE à Syrian War between Rome and Antiochus III
Ø 173 – 164 BCE à Maccabean revolt in Judea
Ø 171 – 168 BCE à Third Macedonian War
Ø 170 – 168 BCE à Sixth Syrian War between Antiochus IV and Ptolemy VI, Ptolemy VIII, and Cleopatra II (joint ruler)
Ø 168 BCE à Battle of Pydna, end of the Antigonid Dynasty in Macedonia
Ø 146 BCE à Achaean Revolt, sack of Corinth
Ø 130 BCE à Ptolemy VIII leaves Cypress and returns to Egypt, leading to a civil war between him and Cleopatra II
Ø 129 BCE à Antiochus VII defeated and killed by Phraates II of Parthia
Ø 112 BCE à Rome declares war on Jugurtha after his sack of Cirta
Ø 93 BCE à Civil War in Judea
Ø 74 BCE à Mithridates invades Bithynia and defeats Murena
Ø 71 BCE à Mithridates defeated by Lucius Lucullus
Ø 67 BCE à Civil War in Judea
Ø 57 BCE à Civil War in Parthia: Mithridates III versus Orodes II
Ø 55 BCE à Defeat of the last Indo-Greek king, Hermaeus
Ø 31 BCE à Antony and Cleopatra defeated at the Battle of Actium
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