326 BC

Year 326 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Visolus and Cursor (or, less frequently, year 428 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 326 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Macedonian Empire

• Spring –
  Hydaspes (modern Jhelum River) and the Acesines (modern Chenab River
  ).

• On the left bank of the Hydaspes, Alexander fights his last great battle, the
  Alexandria Bucephalous or Bucephala (named after his horse Bucephalus
  , which dies there); and Porus becomes his friend and ally.
• Philip, an officer in the service of Alexander the Great, is appointed satrap of India, including the provinces to the west of the Hydaspes, as far south as the junction of the Indus with the Acesines. Philip is put in charge by Alexander of building the city of Alexandria on the Indus.
• Alexander continues on to conquer all the headwaters of the Indus River. East of Porus' kingdom, near the
  Nanda dynasty. Fearing the prospects of facing another powerful Indian army and exhausted by years of campaigning, his army mutinies at the Hyphasis River (the modern Beas River
  ) and refuses to march further east, thus making this river mark the easternmost extent of Alexander's conquests.
• Following the mutiny of his army at the Hyphasis River, Alexander is persuaded by his army leaders to abandon his plans for invading the
  Ganges Valley. Alexander appoints Nearchus, a Cretan with naval experience, as admiral and places under his command all in the ranks of his army with any knowledge of seafaring. Nearchus has Indian shipwrights build 800 vessels, some as large as 300 tons, to take the army through Persian Gulf
  waters to Babylon. Alexander the Great begins the return march down the Indus to the sea.
• After the departure of Alexander from India,
  Taxilas
  as replacement rulers of Philip's territories.

• Following their defeat by the
  Second Samnite War. To help defeat the Samnites, the Romans make alliances with the peoples of Central Italy to the north of Samnium and with the Apulians
  to the southeast.

• Coenus, son of Polemocrates and son-in-law of Parmenion and one of Alexander the Great's generals in his Persian and Indian expeditions

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