329 BC

Centuries:	5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
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329 BC by topic
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**329 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	329 BC
Ab urbe condita	425
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2172 – -2171
Berber calendar	622
Buddhist calendar	216
Burmese calendar	-966
Chinese calendar	2308/2368 ([[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年) — to — 2309/2369 ([[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年)
Coptic calendar	-612 – -611
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
Korean calendar	2005
Thai solar calendar	215
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[edit] Events

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, probably over the Khawak Pass^[1], 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."

Bessus (Artaxerxes IV), Persian nobleman and satrap of Bactria, and later the last claimant to the Achaemenid throne of Persia

^ Smith, Vincent A. (1908) The Early History of India, p. 45. Oxford. The Clarendon Press.