332 BC

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Alexander's and area

• January-August: The army of Alexander the Great besieged Tyre and takes the city after half a year, the residents are killed (2000 inhabitants to be crucified ) or sold into slavery (see: Siege of Tyre (332 BC) ). The other Phoenician cities arising largely without a fight.
• Peace offering of the Persian king Darius III. to Alexander, which it offers the dominion west of the Euphrates; Alexander refuses.
• Alexander the Great conquered Gaza after a three month siege. Also the rest of Palestine comes under Macedonian rule.
• Struggle taking lots of Egypt by Alexander the Great.
• The local rulers of Cyprus, previously subject to the Persians, run over to Alexander the Great.
• Survey of the Thracians against Macedonian rule. Antipater, who is regent during Alexander's campaign in the European part of Alexander's empire, strikes down the rebellion.
• During the Thracian uprising Sparta, the only Greek state, who had not joined the Corinthian collar begins a rebellion against the Macedonians. The Spartan king Agis III. manages to occupy Crete and Elis, and to win most of the cities of Arcadia and Achaia as an alliance partner.

Died

• Admetus, Macedonian officer of Alexander the Great
• Andromachus, governor of Alexander the Great
• Antiphanes, Greek playwright (* 408 BC)
• Amyntas, the Macedonian nobleman and mercenary leader
• 332 or 331 BC: Pnytagoras, king of the city-state of Salamis on Cyprus