329 BC
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Year of the Water Dragon壬辰( at the beginning of the year metal rabbit辛卯)
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Alexander's
- Alexander the Great founded during his turn in today's Afghanistan three cities named after him Alexandria (now Kandahar, Ghazni and Charikar in the Hindu Kush ).
- Alexander conquered Bactria and moves into its capital Bactria; as governor, he uses Artabazus. Alexander's enemy Bessus, meanwhile further north fled.
- June 1: After the companion of Bessus mutinied against this and have it shipped Alexander the Great, this can be him for the murder of Darius III in Bactria. maim and crucify.
- Alexander the Great conquered Samarkand. Finally, he reached the Jaxartes ( Syr Darya ), where he eschata Alexandria, the " remotest Alexandria " (now Khujand ) can be built as extreme north-eastern outpost of his empire.
- July: The Bactrian Captain Spitamenes rebelled against the Macedonian garrison; it follows a protracted guerrilla war against the insurgents Alexander in Bactria and Sogdiana. A Macedonian army under Pharnuches is rubbed it.
Western Mediterranean
- The Romans under the consuls L. Aemilius Mamercinus Privernas and C. Plautius Decianus subdue the Volscian city Privernum, the civitas sine suffragio is.
Died
- Bessus, the last Persian king of the Achaemenid
- Year ( 4th century BC)
- 329 BC