Editing 246 BC (section)

== Deaths ==
* [[Ptolemy II Philadelphus]], king of [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]] from 285 BC, second king of the Ptolemaic dynasty, who has extended his power by skillful diplomacy, developed agriculture and commerce, and made [[Alexandria]] a leading centre of the arts and sciences (b. [[308 BC]])
* [[Antiochus II Theos]], king of the [[Seleucid]] dominions in the [[Middle East]] from [[261 BC]]. He has spent much of his reign at war with [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]], recovering much of the territory in [[Anatolia]] lost in earlier wars between the Ptolemaic and Seleucid dynasties (b. c. [[287 BC]])
* [[Berenice (Seleucid queen)|Berenice]], daughter of [[Ptolemy II Philadelphus]] and [[Arsinoe I of Egypt|Arsinoe]], wife of the [[Seleucid]] ruler [[Antiochus II Theos]], supplanting his first wife, [[Laodice I|Laodice]], whose children she has persuaded him to bar from the succession to the throne in favour of her own.