326 BC
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| Centuries: | 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC |
| Decades: | 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC - 320s BC - 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC |
| Years: | 329 BC 328 BC 327 BC - 326 BC - 325 BC 324 BC 323 BC |
| 326 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 326 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 428 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2169 – -2168 |
| Buddhist calendar | 219 |
| Chinese calendar | 2311/2371 (甲年) — to —
2312/2372([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) |
| Ethiopian calendar | -333 – -332 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3435 – 3436 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -270 – -269 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2776 – 2777 |
| Holocene calendar | 9675 |
| Iranian calendar | 947 BP – 946 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 976 BH – 975 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 335 (皇紀335年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 9675 |
| Julian calendar | -280 |
| Korean calendar | 2008 |
| Thai solar calendar | 218 |
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[edit] Macedonian Empire
- In the spring, Alexander the Great crosses the Indus near Attock and enters Taxila, whose ruler, Taxiles (or Ambhi), furnishes elephants and troops in return for aid against his rival Porus, who rules the lands between the Hydaspes (modern Jhelum River) and the Acesines (modern Chenab River).
- On the left bank of the Hydaspes, Alexander fights his last great battle, the Battle of the Hydaspes River. He and his general Craterus defeat the Indian King Porus. Alexander founds two cities there, Alexandria on the Indus or Alexandria Nicaea (to celebrate his victory) and Alexandria Bucephalous or Bucephala (named after his horse Bucephalus, which dies there); and Porus becomes his ally.
- Philip, an officer in the service of Alexander the Great, is appointed satrap of India, including the provinces to the west of the Hydaspes, as far south as the junction of the Indus with the Acesines. Philip is put in charge by Alexander of building the city of Alexandria on the Indus.
- Alexander continues on to conquer all the headwaters of the Indus River. East of Porus' kingdom, near the Ganges River, Alexander faces the powerful empire of Magadha ruled by the Nanda dynasty. Fearing the prospects of facing another powerful Indian army and exhausted by years of campaigning, his army mutinies at the Hyphasis River (the modern Beas River) and refuses to march further east, thus making this river mark the eastern-most extent of Alexander's conquests.
- Following the mutiny of his army at the Hyphasis River, Alexander is persuaded by his army leaders to abandon his plans for invading the Ganges Valley. Alexander appoints Nearchus, a Cretan with naval experience, as admiral and places under his command all in the ranks of his army with any knowledge of seafaring. Nearchus has Indian shipwrights build 800 vessels, some as large as 300 tons, to take the army through Persian Gulf waters to Babylon. Alexander the Great begins the return march down the Indus to the sea.
- After the departure of Alexander from India, Philip is assassinated by some of the mercenary troops under his command. Alexander names Eudamus and Taxilas as replacement rulers of Philip's territories.
[edit] Roman Republic
- Following their defeat by the Roman forces in Naples, the Samnites declare war on Rome starting the Second Samnite War. To help defeat the Samnites, the Romans make alliances with the peoples of Central Italy to the north of Samnium and with the Apulians to the southeast.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Coenus, son of Polemocrates and son-in-law of Parmenion and one of Alexander the Great's generals in his Persian and Indian expeditions.
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