333 BC Chr.

333 BC Chr.
Alexander the Great triumphs over the last Achaemenid Darius III. in the battle of Issus .
333 BC Chr. In other calendars
Buddhist calendar	211/212 (southern Buddhism); 210/211 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	39th (40th) cycle , year of the earth-rat戊子 ( at the beginning of the year fire-pig 丁亥)
Greek calendar	3rd / 4th Year of the 111th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3428/29
Roman calendar	from urbe condita CDXXI (421)

Events

Summer: Tactical success of the Persians in the Alexander campaign : they use the dissolution of the Greek fleet to advance into the Aegean Sea, in which they take Chios and Lesbos . However, these conquests are lost again in August after the death of the military commander Memnon , who was in Persian service .
Alexander the Great is Antigonus as governor in Gordion and pulls even with the army over the Taurus Mountains. Capture of Cilicia and its capital Tarsus, where Alexander stays until October.

Albrecht Altdorfer : The Battle of Alexander , 1529

November: Alexander the Great wins the battle of Issus over the Persian great king Dareios III.
After the battle of Issus, Alexander's troops pursued the fleeing Persians; Damascus is taken, where huge riches are stolen. The mother, wife and children of Darius are also captured here in Macedonian.
Foundation of Alexandreia (also: Alexandretta; today İskenderun) as the first Hellenistic city foundation in Asia

Taranto calls upon King Alexander I of Epirus to help the city against the Lucanians , Bruttians and Samnites .

around 333 BC Chr .: Zenon von Kition , Greek philosopher, founder of the Stoa († 264 BC )

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