1. Assassination at Aigai

    · Aigai (modern Vergina), Central Macedonia, Greece

    Assassination at Aigai
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    Philip attended the wedding of his daughter Cleopatra and Alexander I of Epirus at Aigai, where Pausanias of Orestis assassinated him. The source gives October 336 BC and qualifies 25 October as a possible day; year precision is used.

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