Ruler · 356 – 323 BCE

Alexander the Great

Lived 356 – 323 BCE; monarch, military leader, politician. King of Macedonia (Macedonia), 336 BCE – 323 BCE; also in the line of League of Corinth, Argead dynasty and Ancient Egypt.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 356 BCE – 323 BCE; 33 years
In office: 13 years; one reign
Lines: 4; states
Left it: died in office; Wikidata's manner of death

King of Macedonia

Macedonia · the 6th of 25 dated reigns · 393 BCE – 168 BCE

2 before

Perdiccas III of Macedon365 BCE – 360 BCE

Amyntas IV359 BCE

Philip II of Macedon359 BCE – 336 BCE

Alexander the Great336 BCE – 323 BCE

Philip III of Macedon323 BCE – 317 BCE

Alexander IV of Macedon322 BCE – 309 BCE

Cassander305 BCE – 297 BCE

16 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 336 BCE – 323 BCE · 13 years · came to it aged 20

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeWikidata's manner of death: natural causes; typhoid fever

Also in the line of League of Corinth (2nd of 2), Argead dynasty (6th of 8) and Ancient Egypt (82nd of 87).

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