Alexander The Great By Jordan Chaplin Period: 357 BCE to 357 BCE Marriage of Olympias to Phillip II of Macedonia Period: 356 BCE to 323 BCE Life of Alexander The Great Period: 346 BCE to 346 BCE Alexander tames Bucephalus, his war horse. Period: 343 BCE to 343 BCE King Phillip II of Macedon summons Aristotle to tutor his young son Alexander Period: 339 BCE to 339 BCE Alexander wins decisive battle at Iaxartes river against the Scythians Period: 338 BCE to 338 BCE The Battle of Charonea gives Athens to Macedonian victors. Agora takes on Macedonian Characteristics Period: 336 BCE to 323 BCE Reign of Alexander The Great Period: 335 BCE to 335 BCE Alexander The Great receives Celtic ambassadors in the Balkans. Period: 334 BCE to 334 BCE Sardis surrenders to Alexander The Great Period: 334 BCE to 323 BCE Campaigns of Alexander The Great Period: 334 BCE to 324 BCE Antipater is regent of Macedon in Alexander's absence Period: 334 BCE to 334 BCE Alexander invades the Persian empire. Period: 334 BCE to 334 BCE Ephesos liberated from Persian rule by Alexander The Great Period: 334 BCE to 334 BCE Alecander sacks Baalbek and renames it Heliopolis Period: 333 BCE to 333 BCE Alexander sacks Sidon Period: 333 BCE to 333 BCE Alexander conquers Aleppo Period: 332 BCE to 332 BCE Alexander visits the Oracle of Ammon at Swia and is declared "master of the Universe" and son of Ammon Period: 332 BCE to 332 BCE Conquest of the Levant by Alecander who destroys Tyre Period: 332 BCE to 332 BCE Alexander besieges and conquers Tyre Period: 332 BCE to 332 BCE Alexander conquers Syria and turns toward Egypt Period: 331 BCE to 331 BCE Battle of Gaugamela. Alexander calls himself "King of Asia" Period: 331 BCE to 331 BCE Alexander founds Alexandria at the port town of Rhakotis in Egypt Period: 331 BCE to 331 BCE Egypt is conquered by Alexander without resistance Period: 331 BCE to 331 BCE Susa surrenders without contest to Alexander Period: 330 BCE to 330 BCE Persepolis is burned and looted by Alexander Period: 329 BCE to 329 BCE Alexander founds Alexandria-Eschate on the Iaxartes and destroys Cyropolis Period: 329 BCE to 329 BCE Alexander conquers Bactria and Sogdiana Period: 327 BCE to 327 BCE Alexander marries the Bactrian girl Roxanne Period: 327 BCE to 325 BCE Alexander's campaign in northern India Period: 326 BCE to 326 BCE Alexander halts his eastward march and turns back from the banks of the river Beas, Punjab, India. Period: 326 BCE to 326 BCE Death of Bucephalus Period: 325 BCE to 320 BCE Greek rule in Gandhara, ending some time after the death of Alexander Period: 324 BCE to 324 BCE Alexander orders restoration work in Pasargadae Period: 324 BCE to 324 BCE Death of Hephaestion Period: 323 BCE to 323 BCE Alexander receives Celtic delegations in Babylon Period: 322 BCE to 275 BCE The Wars of the Diadochi, also known as the Wars of Alexander's Successors Period: 316 BCE to 316 BCE Death of Olympias, mother of Alexander Period: 310 BCE to 310 BCE Assassination of Roxanne ans Alexander IV, wife and son of Alexander The Great Period: 333 to 333 BCE Battle of Issus. Alexander is victorious against Darius III of Persia