-331
This page relates to the year -331 Calendrier Julien proleptic.
Events
China
- Qin makes captive the army of Wei. 80.000 men are decapitated.
Roman world
- With Rome, Consul At of C. Valerius Potitus (Flacus), Mr. Claudius Marcellus.
- the Treaty of Rome with the Gallic Sénons.
Greek world
Raising
- Alexandre founds Alexandria in Egypt with the beginning of the year.
- the nephew of Aristote, Callisthène explores the top the Nile in Egypt.
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Spring: Alexandre Large the, king of Macedonia, leaves Egypt and gains the town of Tyr earlier conquered one year. It receives there a delegation of Athens which beseeches and obtains the release of the Athenian prisoners who had fought in the Persian rows at the time of the Bataille of Granique.
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Fine of spring/beginning of the summer: Alexandre leaves the town of Tyr and goes up towards north in order to meet his adversary Darius III.
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With died of the governor of Samarie, Sanballât, Parménion names Andromachos Greek governor of Samarie or Coelésyrie. This nomination is badly accommodated by the Samaritans who seize Andromachos and burn it sharp. On his return of Egypt, Alexandre walks on Samarie, and after having punished the assassins of the prefect, it names Memnon in the place of Andromachos.
- the reprisals of Alexandre against Samarie and the construction of the temple on the Mont Garizim explain the rebirth of Sichem at the beginning of the Hellénistique time.
Mesopotamy
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At the end of July/at the beginning of August: Alexandre crosses the Euphrate.
- September 20th: Alexandre the Large one crosses the Tigre.
- October 1st: Alexandre demolishes the Persian king Darius III with the Bataille of Gaugamèles.
- Alexandre is proclaimed king of the Asia. It takes Babylon where it is accommodated as a liberator. It honors the gods with the country and names satrap of Babylonia Persia Mazaios. Suse falls without resistance. In Suse, Alexandre finds the spoils that Xerxès had taken in Athens and returns it to the Athenians. While going on Persépolis, it runs up against people mountain, Uxiens, then with the satrap Ariobarzanès, and sudden of heavy losses. It delivers Persépolis to the plundering of its troops and spends the winter there.
Greece
- Revolt of the strategist Macedonian of Thrace against Antipater. The King de Sparte Agis III besieges Megalopolis and demolishes the chief Macedonian Corragos. Antipater obtains the tender of Thrace, then goes down in the Peloponnese and overcomes Agis with the Bataille of Megalopolis. Acted is killed (spring).
- Olympias, in conflict with Antipater, is exiled in Épire.
Births in -331
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Hérophile, Greek doctor.
Death in -331
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