Editing 336 BC

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Year '''336 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Crassus and Duillius''' (or, less frequently, '''year 418 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]''''').<ref>{{Cite web |title=Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 8, chapter 16 |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0026:book=8:chapter=16 |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Roman Republic |url=https://keytoumbria.com/ROMAN_REPUBLIC/Rome_and_Neighbours_(337_-_328_BC).html |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=keytoumbria.com |language=en}}</ref> The denomination 336 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

== 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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== Births ==

== Deaths ==
* [[Amyntas IV of Macedon|Amyntas IV]], usurper king of Macedon
* [[Arses of Persia|Arses]], King of [[Achaemenid Empire|Persia]]
* [[Attalus (general)|Attalus]], Macedonian general (b. c. [[390 BC]])
* [[Bagoas]], Vizier of [[Achaemenid Empire|Persia]]
* [[Cleopatra Eurydice of Macedon|Eurydice]], 7th wife of [[Philip II of Macedon|Philip II]], queen of Macedonia
* [[Pausanias of Orestis]], personal bodyguard of [[Philip II of Macedon]]
* [[Philip II of Macedon|Philip II]], King of [[Macedon]]ia<ref name=brit_alexander>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-the-Great | access-date=February 25, 2024 | date=February 21, 2024 | first=Frank W. | last=Walkbank | title=Alexander the Great | series=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref> (b. [[382 BC]])

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