Region: West Asia · Coordinates: 32.190, 48.254 · 14 events
| Year | Source | Account |
|---|---|---|
| 523 BC | Herodotus, Histories | Cambyses sends Prexaspes to Susa to have his brother Smerdis killed |
| 513 BC | Herodotus, Histories | Darius sets out from Susa to prepare a campaign against the Scythians and has a bridge built across the Bosporus tradition |
| 490 BC | Herodotus, Histories | Datis and Artaphernes reach Asia and take the Eretrian captives to Susa |
| 490 BC | Herodotus, Histories | Darius, hearing of Marathon, furiously orders the army to be mustered; he dies after the Egyptian revolt (reign of 36 years) |
| 480 BC | Herodotus, Histories | At the news of Athens' fall, Xerxes rejoices at Susa; at news of the Salamis defeat, he grieves |
| 465 BC | Plutarch's Parallel Lives | Standing before the Persian king he gives his name and speaks |
| 367 BC | Plutarch's Parallel Lives | He goes as envoy to the Persian Great King and secures Thebes's position |
| 331 BC | Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander | He reached Susa in twenty days from Babylon and took over 50,000 talents and the royal treasure. He sent back to Athens the statues of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, which Xerxes had carried off. |
| 331 BC | Plutarch's Parallel Lives | He takes Susa and obtains 40,000 talents of coin from the palace |
| 330 BC | Diodorus Siculus, Library of History | Alexander took over the famous palace at Susa without bloodshed. |
| 324 BC | Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander | In Susa, Abulites and his son were executed for misgovernment. At a joint wedding of Alexander and his companions he married Barsine, daughter of Darius, and others (Roxana was already his wife). |
| 324 BC | Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander | Alexander ordered a register made to pay off his soldiers' debts, but at first few people came forward to report them. |
| 324 BC | Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander | He called the 30,000 young men of the same age brought by the new cities and conquered-land governors the Epigonoi, and equipped and trained them in the Macedonian way. The Macedonians were resentful. |
| AD 638 | Al-Tabari, History of the Prophets and Kings | Fall of Susa — the body of the Prophet Daniel |