Ruler · 401 – 277 BCE

Sosthenes of Macedon

Lived 401 – 277 BCE; military personnel. King of Macedonia (Macedonia), 279 BCE – 277 BCE.

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Lived: 401 BCE – 277 BCE; 124 years
In office: 2 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Macedonia
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

King of Macedonia

Macedonia · the 19th of 25 dated reigns · 393 BCE – 168 BCE

15 before

Ptolemy Ceraunus281 BCE – 279 BCE

Meleager279 BCE

Antipater Etesias279 BCE

Sosthenes of Macedon279 BCE – 277 BCE

Antigonus II Gonatas277 BCE – 239 BCE

Pyrrhus of Epirus274 BCE – 272 BCE

Demetrius II Aetolicus239 BCE – 229 BCE

3 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 279 BCE – 277 BCE · 2 years · came to it aged 122

Came to it: elected
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 277 BCE, the year they died

Sosthenes was elected King by the Macedonian army, but he may or not have reigned as king.

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