Year 330 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Crassus and Venno (or, less frequently, year 424 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 330 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.

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
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330 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar330 BC
CCCXXX BC
Ab urbe condita424
Ancient Egypt eraXXXII dynasty, 3
- PharaohAlexander the Great, 3
Ancient Greek era112th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar4421
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−922
Berber calendar621
Buddhist calendar215
Burmese calendar−967
Byzantine calendar5179–5180
Chinese calendar庚寅年 (Metal Tiger)
2368 or 2161
    — to —
辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
2369 or 2162
Coptic calendar−613 – −612
Discordian calendar837
Ethiopian calendar−337 – −336
Hebrew calendar3431–3432
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−273 – −272
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2771–2772
Holocene calendar9671
Iranian calendar951 BP – 950 BP
Islamic calendar980 BH – 979 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2004
Minguo calendar2241 before ROC
民前2241年
Nanakshahi calendar−1797
Thai solar calendar213–214
Tibetan calendar阳金虎年
(male Iron-Tiger)
−203 or −584 or −1356
    — to —
阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
−202 or −583 or −1355

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Macedonian Empire

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  • January 20Alexander the Great defeats the Persians, led by satrap Ariobarzanes, at the Persian Gates.[1] In this battle, Ariobarzan, supported by only 700 Persian Immortals, holds the vast Macedonian army of 17,000 men at bay for 30 days. At the end, his troops are surrounded by Alexander's army, because of a Persian shepherd, who leads it around the Persian defenses. However, instead of surrendering, Ariobarzan and his 700 Immortals fight to the last man. Some historians consider him to be the Leonidas of Persia.
  • January 30 – After gaining the Pass of the Persian Gates, Alexander enters Persepolis. There he ceremonially burns down the palace of Xerxes I, as a symbol that the Panhellenic war of revenge is at an end.
  • Before continuing his pursuit of Darius III, who has retreated into Bactria, Alexander assembles all the Persian treasure and entrusts it to Harpalus, who is to hold it at Ecbatana as chief treasurer. Parmenion is also left behind in Media to manage communications between Alexander and the rest of his rapidly growing lands.
  • Alexander appoints Atropates as the satrap of Media while Mithrenes is appointed by Alexander as satrap of Armenia.
  • Crossing the Elburz Mountains to the Caspian Sea, Alexander seizes Zadracarta in Hyrcania and receives the submission of a group of satraps and Persian notables, some of whom he confirms in their offices. He then travels westward and defeats the Mardi, a mountain people who inhabit the Elburz Mountains. He also accepts the surrender of Darius' Greek mercenaries.
  • In Aria, Alexander's army defeats the satrap Satibarzanes, who initially offers to submit, only to later revolt.[2] Alexander then founds the town of Alexandria of the Arians (modern Herat).
  • At Phrada, in Drangiana, Philotas, Parmenion's son and commander of the elite Macedonian companion cavalry, is implicated in an alleged plot against Alexander's life. He is condemned by the army, and executed. A secret message is sent by Alexander to Cleander, Parmenion's second in command, who obediently kills Parmenion at Ecbatana in Media for fear that he will rise up in revolt at the news of his son's death. All of Parmenion's adherents are now eliminated and men close to Alexander are promoted.

Persian Empire

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Macedonia

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Roman Republic

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References

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  1. ^ Bloedow, Edmund F.; Loube, Heather M. (February 1, 1997). "Alexander the Great "Under Fire" at Persepolis". Klio (in German). 79 (2): 341–353. doi:10.1524/klio.1997.79.2.341. ISSN 2192-7669.
  2. ^ Bosworth, A. B. (1983). "A Missing year in the history of Alexander the Great". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 101: 17–39. doi:10.2307/629841. ISSN 2041-4099.
  3. ^ a b "Darius III". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved February 25, 2024.