Timeline: Ptolemaic Empire

• 323 BCE
  After Alexander the Great's death, Cyrene becomes subject of the Ptolemaic Empire.
• 323 BCE - 282 BCE
  Rule of Ptolemy I Soter.
• 323 BCE
  Upon the death of Alexander the Great, Cyprus becomes part of the Ptolemaic Empire.
• 305 BCE - 30 BCE
  The Ptolemaic Dynasty in Egypt.
• c. 301 BCE - c. 195 BCE
  Tyre, as all other Phoenician cities, belongs to the Ptolemies, rulers of hellenistic Egypt.
• 300 BCE
  Ptolemy I founds the Museum of Alexandria.
• 281 BCE
  Samos comes under the control of the Ptolemies of Egypt.
• 274 BCE - 271 BCE
  The first Syrian war, marking the beginning of the contest between the Ptolemies and the Seleucids for Phoenicia and Coele-Syria.
• 246 BCE
  A Ptolemaic fleet uses Samos as a permanent base.
• 203 BCE
  The Seleucid king, Antiochus III Megas signs a treaty with Philip V of Macedon to divide Egypt and its overseas possessions between them.
• 1 Aug 30 BCE
  After Octavian has declined to negotiate, Cleopatra reportedly commits suicide; Mark Antony stabs himself, only later finding Cleopatra still lives, and dies.