Ruler · 318 – 279 BCE

Ptolemy Ceraunus

Lived 318 – 279 BCE; military personnel. King of Macedonia (Macedonia), 281 BCE – 279 BCE.

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Lived: 318 BCE – 279 BCE; 39 years
In office: 2 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Macedonia
Left it: executed; Wikidata's manner of death

King of Macedonia

Macedonia · the 16th of 25 dated reigns · 393 BCE – 168 BCE

12 before

Demetrius I Poliorcetes294 BCE – 288 BCE

Pyrrhus of Epirus288 BCE – 285 BCE

Lysimachus288 BCE – 281 BCE

Ptolemy Ceraunus281 BCE – 279 BCE

Meleager279 BCE

Antipater Etesias279 BCE

Sosthenes of Macedon279 BCE – 277 BCE

6 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 281 BCE – 279 BCE · 2 years · came to it aged 38

Came to it: seized powerthe in-law of the ruler before, on record
Left it: executedWikidata's manner of death: decapitation

He then seized the throne of Macedon, which he ruled for seventeen months before his death in battle against the Gauls in early 279 BC.

Immediately after Ceraunus' death, the throne of Macedon was taken by his younger brother Meleager, but he was deposed by his troops within months.

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