Ruler · 293 – 266 BCE

Seleucus

Lived 293 – 266 BCE; monarch. Seleucid ruler of Seleucid Empire, 280 BCE – 266 BCE.

Lived: 293 BCE – 266 BCE; 27 years
In office: 14 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Seleucid Empire
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

Seleucid ruler

Seleucid Empire · the 3rd 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

Seleucus II Callinicus246 BCE – 225 BCE

Seleucus III Ceraunus225 BCE – 223 BCE

9 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 280 BCE – 266 BCE · 14 years · came to it aged 13

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 266 BCE, the year they died

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