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Year of the Fire Pig丁亥( at the beginning of the year Fire Dog丙戌)

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Politics and World Affairs

Alexander's

In the spring of Alexander the Great begins the planned already by his father Philip II Persie campaign with 5,000 horsemen and 30,000 foot soldiers and wins in May at the Battle of the Granicus over the Persians under Memnon of Rhodes. Alexander visited Troy and sacrifices at the grave of Achilles. He pulls without a fight in Sardis and turns to Miletus, which is defended by the local satrap, but in a combined operation with the Macedonian fleet (160 vessels) can be captured under Nicanor.

Then follows the lossy and lengthy siege of Halicarnassus, whither Memnon has withdrawn, which also ends with the conquest by Alexander's troops. Caria Alexander wins for himself by, as governor of the area using Ada, the daughter of the last satrap while he Nearchos passes Lycia and Pamphylia, he runs through the sequence to administration.

End of the year meets Alexander from the south in Gordion in central Anatolia, while his general Parmenion takes the direct route from Ionia eastward. In Gordion Alexander is said to have cut the Gordian knot with the sword; According to legend, the fall should rule over Asia, which would loosen the knot.

Western Mediterranean

  • Completion of the Via Latina, the oldest Roman military road.

China

  • Time of the Warring States: The State of Chu annexed the territory of Yue at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Died

April 2014 List of centuries 2nd century BC 360s BC 340s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC (decade) 344 BC 338 BC 330 BC 324 BC Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Olympiad Philip II of Macedon Siege of Miletus Nicanor (Antipatrid general) Ada of Caria Nearchus Gordium Yue (state) Ptolemy (somatophylax)
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