329 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC – 4th century BC – 3rd century BC
Decades:	350s BC  340s BC  330s BC  – 320s BC –  310s BC  300s BC  290s BC
Years:	332 BC 331 BC 330 BC – 329 BC – 328 BC 327 BC 326 BC

329 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	329 BC CCCXXVIII BC
Ab urbe condita	425
Ancient Egypt era	XXXII dynasty, 4
- Pharaoh	Alexander the Great, 4
Ancient Greek era	112th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4422
Bengali calendar	−921
Berber calendar	622
Buddhist calendar	216
Burmese calendar	−966
Byzantine calendar	5180–5181
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 2368 or 2308     — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 2369 or 2309
Coptic calendar	−612 – −611
Discordian calendar	838
Ethiopian calendar	−336 – −335
Hebrew calendar	3432–3433
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−272 – −271
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2773–2774
Holocene calendar	9672
Iranian calendar	950 BP – 949 BP
Islamic calendar	979 BH – 978 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2005
Minguo calendar	2240 before ROC 民前2240年
Thai solar calendar	214–215

Year 329 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Privernas and Decianus (or, less frequently, year 425 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 329 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

By place

Macedonian Empire

• From Phrada, Alexander the Great presses on up the valley of the Helmand River, through Arachosia, and over the mountains past the site of modern Kabul into the country of the Paropamisade, where he founds Alexandria by the Caucasus.
• In Bactria, Bessus raises a national revolt in the eastern satrapies using the title of King Artaxerxes V of Persia.
• Crossing the Hindu Kush northward, probably over the Khawak Pass, Alexander brings his army, despite food shortages, to Drapsaka. Outflanked, Bessus flees beyond the Oxus river.
• Marching west to Bactra (Zariaspa), Alexander appoints Artabazus of Phrygia as the satrap of Bactria.
• Crossing the Oxus, Alexander sends his general Ptolemy in pursuit of Bessus. In the meantime, Bessus is overthrown by the Sogdian Spitamenes. Bessus is captured, flogged, and sent to Ptolemy in Bactria with the hope of appeasing Alexander. In due course, Bessus is publicly executed at Ecbatana. With the death of Bessus (Artaxerxes V), Persian resistance to Alexander the Great ceases.
• From Maracanda, Alexander advances through Cyropolis to the Jaxartes river, the boundary of the Persian Empire. There he breaks the opposition of the Scythian nomads by his use of catapults and, after defeating them in a battle on the north bank of the river, pursues them into the interior. On the site of modern Khujand on the Jaxartes, he founds a city, Alexandria Eschate, "the farthest."

Deaths

• Bessus (Artaxerxes V), Persian nobleman and satrap of Bactria, and later the last claimant to the Achaemenid throne of Persia