Ruler · 358 – 281 BCE

Seleucus I Nicator

Lived 358 – 281 BCE. Seleucid ruler of Seleucid Empire, 312 BCE – 281 BCE.

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Lived: 358 BCE – 281 BCE; 77 years
In office: 31 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Seleucid Empire
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

Seleucid ruler

Seleucid Empire · the 1st of 15 dated reigns · 312 BCE – 64 BCE

Seleucus I Nicator312 BCE – 281 BCE

Antiochus I Soter281 BCE – 261 BCE

Seleucus280 BCE – 266 BCE

Antiochus II Theos261 BCE – 246 BCE

11 after

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 312 BCE – 281 BCE · 31 years · came to it aged 46

Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: homicide

the article also: killed

But upon arriving in Thrace in 281 BC, Seleucus was assassinated by Ptolemy Ceraunus, who had taken refuge at the Seleucid court with his sister Lysandra.

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