Alexander the Great

  • 323

    Dead

    The 32-year-old Alexander died on June 10, 323 B.C because of weeks of illness, caused by malaria, exhaustion.
  • 331

    Battle of Gaugamela

    In 331, at the Battle of Gaugamela (in present-day Iraq), he defeated the army of the Persian king, Darius III.
  • 356

    Alexander the Great

    1.Alexander was born in 356 B.C. in Pella, Macedon (or Macedonia), in what is now part of northern Greece but was then a separate kingdom.
  • 356

    Education

    2.in 356 BC, Alexander received a classical education.
  • Traveling to central Asia

    From 329 to 326 B.C., Alexander led his victorious army through the deserts and in mountas of central Asia, to the borders of India.After years of war in lands strange to
    them, his weary soldiers wanted to return home.