dec 1, 310 BC - 310 BC - Cassander had Alexander the Great’s son, Alexander IV, and his widow, Roxanne, murdered, bringing to a brutal end the royal dynasty which had ruled Macedonia for so many centuries.
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Soon after this the survivors amongst Alexander’s Successors began proclaiming themselves kings, and Cassander became king of Macedonia. He died in 297, and the country experienced a sequence of struggles as claimants for the throne fought each other.
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