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Conquests of Alexander the Great

334 BCE – 323 BCE · 11 years

Alexander's relentless campaign from Greece to India — toppling the Persian Empire and creating the largest empire the ancient world had ever seen.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Macedon
  • Achaemenid Empire

Key moments

Defining events in the Conquests of Alexander the Great.

  1. 334 BC Granicus
  2. 333 BC Issus
  3. 331 BC Gaugamela
  4. 326 BC Hydaspes

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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Landmark · Europe

Plitvice Lakes

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Armenia

Attested 323 BCE – 2026 CE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · Europe

Lamian War

323 BCE – 322 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Giant's Causeway

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Cappadocia

Attested 323 BCE – 300 BCE

Conflict · Europe

Roman–Etruscan Wars

509 BCE – 264 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Danube Delta

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 334 BCE and 323 BCE.

333 BCE Battle of Issus 331 BCE Battle of Gaugamela 323 BCE Lamian War 332 BCE Siege of Tyre 331 BCE Alexandria

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Pasargadae Landmark · Middle East 546 BCE – 330 BCE Hadramaut Polity · Middle East 323 BCE – 1700 CE Persian Royal Road Trade route · Middle East 500 BCE – 330 BCE Warring States Period Conflict · East Asia 475 BCE – 221 BCE Aristotle Figure · Greece 384 BCE – 322 BCE Alexandria Landmark · Middle East 331 BCE – still standing
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