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Year of the Fire Rooster丁酉( at the beginning of the year Fire Monkey丙申)

Events

January: Alexander the Great returns from his expedition to India Susa back.
February: Alexander the Great at Susa celebrates wedding with Stateira, daughter of Darius III, as well as with Parysatis, daughter of Artaxerxes III,. . at the same time 10,000 Macedonian soldiers are married with Persian women.
August: Macedonian soldiers mutiny against Alexander at Opis against its policy of favoring the Persians.
August 4: Nicanor of Stagira be at the direction of Alexander the Great during the Olympic Games, the Olympic proclaim Verbanntendekret in front of about 20,000 exiles, according to which all Greek exiles should be pardoned and return to their home countries with Macedonian warranty.

Fall: After Alexander has released more than 10,000 Macedonian soldiers to their homeland, he moved to Ecbatana. Here dies his friend Hephaestion, Alexander had made chiliarchs ( vizier ); Succeeded in this office is Perdiccas.
End of the year meets Alexander preparations for an expedition against Carthage; He also sent an expedition under Androsthenes for circumnavigation of Arabia.
Harpalus affair: Several Athenian politicians are accused to have been paid by Harpalus, the treasurer of Alexander the Great.
Greek colonists found the city of Alicante as Akra Leuke.

Antiochus I Soter, who later became king of the dynasty of the Seleucids († 261 BC)

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