alexanders birth

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  • 324

    rulinginto a unfied empire

    Back at Susa in 324 Alexander took steps to merge the people under his rule into a unified empire.
  • 324

    olymic games proposed

    At the Olympic Games of 324 a spokesman for Alexander proposed that the king should thereafter be treated as a god.
  • 334

    army crossing

    Alexander's army crossed the Hellespont in 334 BC with approximately 42,000 soldiers from Macedon and various Greek city-states, mercenaries, and feudally-raised soldiers from Thrace, Paionia, and Illyria.
  • 356

    alexanders birth

    Alexander was born on 20 (or 21) July 356 BC,[2][3] in Pella, the capital of the Kingdom of Macedon.

  • alexanders death

    Alexander had returned to Babylon to make plans for a land-sea expedition around Arabia when he fell ill with a fever and died. He was not yet 33 years old. His body, according to legend, was preserved in honey within a glass coffin and placed in an imposing mausoleum in Alexandria, Egypt.