|
336
|
Spring |
Parmenion
leads vanguard into Asia |
|
Summer |
Murder of Artaxerxes
IV; accession of Darius III |
|
October |
Murder of Philip
(text);
accession of Alexander |
|
Nov-Dec. |
Alexander gains support of the Greek towns |
|
335
|
Summer |
Alexander campaigns in the Balkans |
|
|
Memnon's
counterattack in Asia |
|
12? Sept. |
Fall of Thebes (text) |
|
Nov-Dec. |
Festivals at Dion and Aegae |
|
334
|
May |
Alexander lands in Asia |
|
Early June |
Battle of the Granicus river (text) |
|
July |
Capture of Miletus |
|
August |
Start of the siege of Halicarnassus |
|
333
|
Winter |
Alexander conquers Caria,
Lycia, Pamphylia
and Phrygia |
|
March-June |
Naval offensive of Memnon |
|
April-July |
Alexander in Gordium
(text) |
|
July |
Death of Memnon |
|
Late July |
Alexander leaves Gordium |
|
|
Darius leaves Babylon |
|
July-Sept |
Pharnabazus
continues the naval offensive |
|
September |
Alexander in Cilicia
and falls ill (text) |
|
October |
Parmenion
sent to the Syrian gates |
|
|
Alexander campaigns in West-Cilicia |
|
c.5 Nov. |
Battle of
Issus (text) |
|
Dec.? |
Darius opens negotiations (text) |
|
332
|
January |
Beginning of the siege of Tyre |
|
Spring |
Disintegration of Persian fleet |
|
July |
Fall of Tyre (text) |
|
Sept-Nov. |
Siege of Gaza (text) |
|
November |
Alexander visits Jerusalem? (text) |
|
|
Alexander enters Egypt |
| 331 |
January |
Alexander in Heliopolis and Memphis |
|
March |
Alexander visits the oracle of Ammon
(text) |
|
7 April |
Alexander founds Alexandria
(text) |
|
June |
Alexander in Phoenicia and Syria |
|
July |
Reinforcements leave Macedonia |
|
|
Alexander's sets out to the East |
|
Aug-Sept. |
Alexander campaigns in Mesopotamia |
|
1 Oct. |
Battle of Gaugamela |
|
22 Oct. |
Mazaeus
surrenders Babylon
to Alexander
(Babylonian text; Latin
text) |
|
|
| Abulites surrenders Susa
to Alexander |
| Alexander leaves Susa |
|
|
|
|
|
|
June |
Darius leaves Ecbatana |
|
c.17 July |
Death of Darius III at Choara;
Bessus
king (text) |
|
Aug-Sept. |
Alexander in Hyrcania,
Parthia
and Aria |
|
November |
Alexander in Drangiana;
plot of Philotas |
|
|
Alexander in Ariaspa; murder of Parmenion |
| 329 |
February |
Armies unite in Arachosia |
| |
April |
Alexander advances to Gandara |
|
Late May |
Alexander crosses the Hindu Kush (text) |
|
c. 1 June |
Alexander advances to the Oxus
(text) |
|
|
Alexander captures Bessus |
|
|
Alexander advances to the Jaxartes |
|
July |
Alexander founds Alexandria
Eschatê |
|
|
Revolt in Sogdia, led by Spitamenes;
battle
of the Jaxartes |
|
|
Cavalry reorganized |
|
328
|
Winter |
Alexander at Bactra |
|
Summer |
Campaigns in Sogdia and Bactria |
|
Autumn |
Murder of Clitus |
|
December |
Capture of Spitamenes |
|
327
|
Winter |
Alexander in Maracanda
and Nautaca |
|
Spring |
Capture of the Sogdian Rock (text) |
|
Summer |
Armies unite at Bactra. |
|
|
Introduction of proskynesis
(text) |
|
|
Marriage to Roxane |
|
Late Summer |
Conspiracy of the pages; death of Callisthenes |
|
326
|
February |
Hephaestion
advances through Gandara
to Indus |
|
|
Alexander campaigns in the Swat
valley |
|
|
Alexander takes the Aornus
rock |
|
April |
Armies unite near the Indus;
advance to Taxila |
|
May |
Battle of the Hydaspes
against Porus |
|
c. 26 June |
Crossing of the Acesines |
|
Late July |
Mutiny at the Hyphasis (text) |
|
September |
Beginning of fleet building |
|
November |
Alexander's fleet starts down the Hydaspes |
|
325
|
January |
Campaign against the Mallians; Alexander wounded |
|
February |
Disaster at the confluence of Acesines and Indus |
|
April |
The Brahman rebellion |
|
June |
Craterus
starts for Carmania |
|
c. 15 July |
Peithon's
and other forces arrive at Patala |
|
Late August |
Alexander starts for Carmania |
|
15 Sept. |
Nearchus
starts on his voyage (text) |
|
|
Alexander in Gedrosia
(text) |
|
December |
Punishment of the satraps (text) |
|
|
Alexander meets Craterus
in Carmania |
|
324
|
January |
Alexander meets Nearchus
in Carmania |
|
February |
Alexander in Pasargadae
(text) |
|
|
Death of Calanus
(text) |
|
March |
Alexander meets Nearchus
in Susa |
|
|
Marriages at Susa
(text) |
|
Summer |
Alexander's decree on the exiles (text) |
|
August |
Mutiny at Opis
(text) |
|
|
Veterans set off with Craterus |
|
October |
Alexander at Ecbatana |
|
Late Oct. |
Death of Hephaestion |
| 323 |
Winter |
Alexander requests divine honors |
| |
|
Alexander campaigns against the Cossaeans |
|
April-May |
Alexander in Babylon |
|
May |
Preparations for campaign to Arabia |
|
11 June |
Alexander dies (Greek text; Babylonian
text) |
