281 BC

• Greek king of Persia Seleucus finally defeats and kills his old rival Lysimachus at the Battle of Corupedium, only to be assassinated himself by his putative ally Ptolemy Ceraunus, who takes Lysimachus's kingdom for himself.

These people died in 281 BC:

• Seleucus, one of Alexander the Great's original generals and founder of the Seleucid Dynasty in Persia, assassinated by his ally Ptolemy Ceraunus, succeeded as king of Persia by his son, Antiochus I.
• Lysimachus, king of Macedonia and Turkey, defeated and killed by Seleucus at the Battle of Corupedium.

282 BC - 281 BC - 280 BC

3rd century BC

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