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| 330 BC |
| | As a conclusive end to the long rivalry between Greece and Persia, Alexander destroys the great palace of Xerxes at Persepolis | |
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| 330 BC |
| | Alexander adopts the ceremonial dress and court rituals of of his new Persian empire | |
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| 330 BC |
| | Alexander begins two years moving with his army through his vast new territories, establishing Greek settlements | |
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| 327 BC |
| | Alexander marries Roxana after subduing the territories of her father, a Bactrian chief in the modern region of Aghanistan | |
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| 327 BC |
| | Alexander takes a major new step, leaving Persian territory and moving through the mountain passes into India | |
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| 326 BC |
| | Alexander's famous horse Bucephalus dies in India and is commemorated in the name of a new town, Bucephala | |
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| 325 BC |
| | In the Indian monsoon Alexander's Greek troops have finally had enough and threaten to mutiny unless he turns for home | |
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| 324 BC |
| | Back in Persia, to emphasize that Greece and Persia are now one, Alexander marries eighty of his senior officers to Persian wives | |
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| 324 BC |
| | Alexander and his companion Hephaestion marry daughters of Darius III | |
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| 324 BC |
| | When the army reaches Ecbatana, Hephaestion dies of a fever and the grief-stricken Alexander erects shrines in his memory | |
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