301 B.C.

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This page concerns the year 301 of the Julian Proleptic calendar.

Events
Early summer: Antigone the Borgne and Demetrios Poliorcete are defeated at the Battle of Ipsos by Seleucos, Lysimac and Pleistarchos. Antigonos is killed. Alexander's empire is permanently dismembered into four kingdoms: Macedonia, Thrace, Syria and Egypt.
Lysimaque gets Asia minor to Taurus, except for a few places in Lycia, Pamphylia and Pisidia that remain in Ptolemy and Cilicia, which echoes Pleistarchos, Cassander's brother.
Ptolemy established his domination over Palestine, Kyria and Cyprus.
Seleucos claims Syria but is unable to annex it completely in front of the Ptolemy advance to the Eleutherus River.
Demetrios was cut off in Greece and his son Antigonos II was shortly after proclaimed king of Macedonia (294 B.C.).
22 September (November of the Roman calendar): In Rome, the consuls are not renewed. Dictature of Marcus Valerius Corvus. He triumphed over the Etruscans on 12 October (21 November of the Roman calendar).
Ariarath proclaimed himself king of Cappadocia (end of reign around 280 B.C.).
The Stoic philosopher Zeno of Cition founded the School of the Portico (Stoa) in Athens.

Death in 301 BC

Antigone the Borgne

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