Editing 336 BC (section)

== Events ==
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===By place===
====Achaemenid Empire====
* The young king of [[Achaemenid Empire|Persia]], [[Arses of Persia|Arses]], objects to being controlled by [[Bagoas]] and attempts to poison him. Instead, Arses and all his children are killed by Bagoas.
* Bagoas then seeks to install a new monarch who will be easier to control. He chooses [[Darius III|Codomannus]], a distant relative of the royal house, who takes the name [[Darius III of Persia|Darius III]]. When Darius tries to assert his independence from Bagoas' control, Bagoas attempts to poison him, but the king is warned and forces Bagoas to drink the poison himself.

==== Macedonia ====
* Following [[Philip II of Macedon]]'s marriage to [[Cleopatra Eurydice of Macedon|Eurydice]], [[Alexander the Great|Alexander]] and his mother, [[Olympias]], flee to [[Epirus]], with [[Alexander the Great|Alexander]] later moving to [[Illyria]]. However, shortly afterward, father and son are reconciled and Alexander returns; but his position as heir is tenuous.
* Macedonian troops, commanded by [[Parmenion]], trusted lieutenant of Philip II, arrive in [[Asia Minor]], but are driven back by Persian forces under the command of the Greek mercenary [[Memnon of Rhodes]].
* At a grand celebration of his daughter [[Cleopatra of Macedonia|Cleopatra's]] marriage to [[Alexander I of Epirus]] (brother of Olympias), Philip II is assassinated at [[Aegae (Macedon)|Aegae]] by [[Pausanias of Orestis]], a young Macedonian bodyguard with a bitter grievance against the young queen's uncle [[Attalus (general)|Attalus]] and against Philip for denying him justice. Pausanias is killed on the spot.
* Following his assassination, Philip II of Macedon is succeeded by his son [[Alexander the Great|Alexander III]]. Suspecting the princes of the [[Lynkestis]] region of killing Phillip II, Alexander executes them all. The [[League of Corinth]] promotes Alexander to general of a unified Greek army for its planned invasion of [[Asia Minor]].<ref name=brit_alexander/>
* Alexander immediately has [[Amyntas IV of Macedon|Amyntas IV]], son of King [[Perdiccas III of Macedon|Perdiccas III]] and his cousin, executed.
* Alexander puts down a rebellion in Macedonia and crushes the rebellious Illyrians. He then appears at the gates of [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]] and receives the city's submission. After that he advances to the [[Corinth]]ian isthmus and is elected by the assembled Greeks as their commander against [[Achaemenid Empire|Persia]].
* [[Conscription]] is introduced in [[Athens]]. Young men are required to perform duties which are part military and part civic.
* [[Aeschines]] brings a suit against [[Ctesiphon (orator)|Ctesiphon]] for illegally proposing the award of a crown to the Athenian leader [[Demosthenes]] in recognition of his services to [[Athens]].
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