Brief Chronology Of Alexander’s Life

• 356 BC Birth of Alexander The Great
• 343 BC Aristotle arrives in Macedonia as Alexander’s tutor
• 338 BC Philip victorious at battle of Chaeronea. Alexander visits Athens. Alexander goes into exile
• 337 BC League of Corinth meets, authorizes invasion of Persian Empire
• 336 BC Darius III becomes king of Persia. Alexander returns from exile. Murder of Philip; ascension of Alexander to throne of Macedonia
• 335 BC Alexander campaigns on the Danube. Revolt and destruction of Thebes
• 334 BC Alexander crosses into Asia Minor. Battle of the Granicus. Capture of Miletus and Halicarnassus
• 333 BC Episode of the Gordion Knot. Battle of Issus
• 332 BC Siege of Tyre. Capture of Gaza. Alexander enters Egypt
• 331 BC Alexander visits oracle at Siwa. Battle of Gaugamela. Alexander enters Babylon
• 330 BC Persepolis captured and burned. Death of Darius. Conspiracy of Philotas
• 329 BC Alexander crosses the Hindu Kush, reaches the Oxus River, advances to Samarkand; defeat of Bessus
• 328 BC Murder of Cleitus the Black
• 327 BC Marriage to Roxane. Alexander invades India
• 326 BC Battle of the Hydaspes. Death of Bucephalas
• 325 BC Alexander reaches the sea; march through the Gedrosian desert; voyage of Nearchus and the fleet
• 324 BC Alexander returns to Persia. Mass marriages at Susa. Death of Hephaestion
• 323 BC Alexander The Great returns to Babylon. Death of Alexander in June

Source : Alexander The Great by Philip Freeman