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324
rulinginto a unfied empire
Back at Susa in 324 Alexander took steps to merge the people under his rule into a unified empire. -
324
olymic games proposed
At the Olympic Games of 324 a spokesman for Alexander proposed that the king should thereafter be treated as a god. -
334
army crossing
Alexander's army crossed the Hellespont in 334 BC with approximately 42,000 soldiers from Macedon and various Greek city-states, mercenaries, and feudally-raised soldiers from Thrace, Paionia, and Illyria. -
356
alexanders birth
Alexander was born on 20 (or 21) July 356 BC,[2][3] in Pella, the capital of the Kingdom of Macedon. -
alexanders death
Alexander had returned to Babylon to make plans for a land-sea expedition around Arabia when he fell ill with a fever and died. He was not yet 33 years old. His body, according to legend, was preserved in honey within a glass coffin and placed in an imposing mausoleum in Alexandria, Egypt.