The Battle of the Hydaspes
Alexander beats Porus, then his army refuses to go on
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In May 326 BC Alexander the Great crossed the monsoon-swollen Hydaspes and defeated the Indian king Porus and his war elephants. He kept the captured Porus as ruler, but at the Hyphasis river his army, worn out by eight years of campaigning, refused to go on, and Alexander turned back.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 338 BC The Battle of Chaeronea — 12 years earlier
Middle East
- 333 BC The Battle of Issus — 7 years earlier
- 331 BC Battle of Gaugamela — 5 years earlier
- 323 BC Death of Alexander the Great — 3 years later
- 312 BC Seleucus retakes Babylon: the Seleucid era — 14 years later
- 301 BC The Battle of Ipsus — 25 years later
Africa
- 331 BC Founding of Alexandria — 5 years earlier
- 305 BC Ptolemy I proclaims himself king — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Aristotle (aged 58)
- Alexander the Great (aged 30)
- Mencius (aged 46)
- Epicurus (aged 15)
- Chandragupta Maurya (aged 14)
- Diogenes of Sinope (aged 86)
- Olympias (aged 49)
- Zhuangzi (aged 43)
- Ptolemy I Soter (aged 41)
- Pyrrho (aged 34)