329 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: | 332 BC 331 BC 330 BC - 329 BC - 328 BC 327 BC 326 BC |
| 329 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 329 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 425 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2172 – -2171 |
| Buddhist calendar | 216 |
| Chinese calendar | 2308/2368 ([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) — to —
2309/2369([[Sexagenary cycle|]]年) |
| Ethiopian calendar | -336 – -335 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3432 – 3433 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -273 – -272 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2773 – 2774 |
| Holocene calendar | 9672 |
| Iranian calendar | 950 BP – 949 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 979 BH – 978 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 332 (皇紀332年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 9672 |
| Julian calendar | -283 |
| Korean calendar | 2005 |
| Thai solar calendar | 215 |
[edit] Events
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[edit] Macedonian Empire
- From Phrada, Alexander the Great presses on up the valley of the Helmand River, through Arachosia, and over the mountains past the site of modern Kabul into the country of the Paropamisadae, where he founds Alexandria by the Caucasus.
- In Bactria, Bessus raises a national revolt in the eastern satrapies using the title of King Artaxerxes IV of Persia.
- Crossing the Hindu Kush northward over the Khawak Pass, Alexander brings his army, despite food shortages, to Drapsaka. Outflanked, Bessus flees beyond the Oxus river.
- Marching west to Bactra (Zariaspa), Alexander appoints Artabazus of Phrygia as the satrap of Bactria.
- Crossing the Oxus, Alexander sends his general Ptolemy in pursuit of Bessus. In the meantime, Bessus is overthrown by the Sogdian Spitamenes. Bessus is captured, flogged, and sent to Ptolemy in Bactria with the hope of appeasing Alexander. In due course, Bessus is publicly executed at Ecbatana. With the death of Bessus (Artaxerxes IV), Persian resistance to Alexander the Great ceases.
- From Maracanda, Alexander advances through Cyropolis to the Jaxartes river, the boundary of the Persian Empire. There he breaks the opposition of the Scythian nomads by his use of catapults and, after defeating them in a battle on the north bank of the river, pursues them into the interior. On the site of modern Khojent on the Jaxartes, he founds a city, Alexandria Eschate, "the farthest."
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[edit] Deaths
- Bessus (Artaxerxes IV), Persian nobleman and satrap of Bactria, and later the last claimant to the Achaemenid throne of Persia.
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