329 BC c.

The year 329 B.C. C. was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire it was known as the Year of the Consulate of Privernas and Decianus (or, less frequently, year 425 Ab urbe condita).

Events

• From Farāh, Alexander the Great presses over the valley of the Helmand River, through Aracosia, and over the mountains past the place of what is modernly Kabul entering the country of the Paropamisade, where he founded Alexandria of the Caucasus.
• In Bactria, Besos organizes a national revolt in the eastern satrapies using the title of King Artaxerxes IV of Persia.
• Crossing the Hindu Kush to the north, probably by the pass of Jawak, Alexander carries his army, despite his shortage of provisions, to Drapsaka. Overwhelmed by the flanks, Besos marches beyond the river Oxo.
• Marching westward to Bactra (Zariaspa), Alexander appoints Artabazo de Frigia as a sátrapa de Bactria.
• Crossing the Oxo, Alejandro sends his general Ptolemy in search of Besos. Meanwhile, Besos is overcome by the Sogdiano Espitamenes. Besos is captured, whipped and sent to Ptolomneo in Bactria with the wait to appease Alexander. In due course, Besos is publicly executed in Ecbatana. With the death of Beso (Artajerjes IV), the Persian resistance to Alexander the Great ceases.
• From Maracanda, Alexander advances through Cyrópolis to the Jaxartes River, the boundary of the Persian Empire. There he breaks the opposition of the nomadic scites for their use of catapults and, after defeating them in a battle on the north bank of the river, pursues them inside. In the place of the modern Khodjent in the Jaxartes, he founded a city, Alexandria Escate, "the most distant."

Deaths

• Satibarzanes, Persian Satrapa of Aria, one of the last cones of Alexander the Great
• Kisses, murderer and successor of Darius III who reigned as Artaxerxes V