-325

This page relates to the year -325 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

Pythéas, navigator, astronomer and geographer of Massalia (Marseilles) reached the United Kingdom and the island of Thulé (Jutland, Iceland or Norway). He fails the mouth of the the Rhine, then carries on his road towards the mouth of another river, the Elba or of Oder. He reports his voyage in a work entitled the Ocean . Other merchants massaliotes reach the Senegal and establish a sales network in the Western Mediterranean.

With Rome, Consul At of L. Furius Camillus II, D. Iunius Brutus Scaeva.
Dictatorship of Lucius Papirius Cursor.
Victoire of the Main of cavalry Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus on the Samnites, which generates serious disagreements with the dictator who had prohibited to him to leave to shift.

the Athenians decide to found a colony in the Adriatique, an aim of fighting against piracy (It and Italians) and of ensuring the safety of the corn convoys coming from Occident.

January - July: Stay of Alexandre Large the in the delta of the Indus. Construction of a port and a shipyard.
July: Alexandre descends Indus until Pattala with nine hundred boats.
August: Departure of Alexandre towards the Gédrosie (current Baloutchistan). The crossing of the desert of Gédrosie causes heavy losses with its army.
Cratère takes the traditional road by the Passe of Bolan and Alexandria d' Arachosie (Kandahar).
September: Departure of the fleet of Alexandre Large the, directed by the admiral crétois Néarque, of the valley of Indus. Its forwarding on the sea Erythrée and the Persian Gulf lasts 154 days.
Winter: Junction of Néarque and Alexandre in Carmanie (undoubtedly towards the Strait of current Ormuz).

Alexandre leaves in India Peithon, satrap of the Sind, Oxyartes with Alexandria of the Caucasus and Philippe with Gandhara (assassinated in -325), with garrisons.

Alexandre in Carmanie (at the end of -325). Beginning of the judgment of satraps. Two of the Macedonians chiefs of the army of Médie, Cléandre and Sitalcès, shown exactions, are put at death. During the winter, to avoid a revolt of the satraps, Alexandre gives the order to dissolve the satrapic troops. Many Greek mercenaries, demobilized, return in Greece (partly thanks to the assistance of the Athenian Léosthène) and are installed with the Cape Ténare, on the territory of Sparte.
Escape of the treasurer Harpale, Babylon to Tarsus, in Cilicie with 5000 talents. Alexandre threatens Athens of destruction if it accommodates Harpale.

In India, the Greeks discover new plants of culture (Riz, Coton, Canne with sugar) as well as the existence of the Marées.

Néarque, Ptolémée and Aristobule will leave written testimonys of the forwarding of Alexandre in India.
Fable S , of Démétrios de Phalère.

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