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Berenice II

Berenice II (after 270-221): queen of the Ptolemaic Empire.

Born after 270
250: King Magas of Cyrene and king Ptolemy II Philadelphus agree to marry Berenice to Ptolemy III Euergetes
250 or 249: Death of her father, Magas; queen Apame agrees to a marriage between Berenice and Demetrius the Fair, who is made king of Cyrene
Demetrius the Fair is assassinated; Cyrene recovered for the Ptolemaic empire
Berenice can marry her fiancé
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January 246: Accession of king Ptolemy III Euergetes
Summer 246: Outbreak of the Laodicean War; king Ptolemy in Syria and Babylonia. Berenice sacrices her locks, which are believed to have become a new constellation (the subject of a poem by Callimachus)
245: Victory at the Nemean Games (horse racing)
Birth of Ptolemy IV, who soon receives the surname Philopator, 'father-loving'
February 238: Death of a daughter named Berenice
Ptolemy IV succeeds father between 5 and 16 February 222; many relatives are killed by his ministers Agathocles and Sosibius
221: Ptolemy IV orders the death of his mother and his brother Magas

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