Alexander The Great By kelseymoman 356 BCE Alexander The Great is born 346 BCE He tames his war horse, Bucephalus 343 BCE Aristotle becomes Alexanders tutor 340 BCE Alexander and his father went to war 338 BCE Alexander controls Greece 336 BCE Philip (Alexanders father) dies 334 BCE Alexander the Great becomes king 331 BCE Alexander takes over the rest of Persia 331 BCE He founds Alexandria at the port town of Rhakotis in Egypt 330 BCE Alexander wins the war and rules Asia 327 BCE Alexander takes a wife 326 BCE He takes on another battle and gets a life threatening disease 323 BCE Alexander dies 316 BCE Alexander's mother, Olympias dies 236 BCE His horse Bucephalus dies