16 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.
What happened
West Asia (15)
Alexander reached Pasargadae in Persis, and was saddened to find that the tomb of Cyrus had been broken into. (Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 6.29.1–6.29.11)
At the old palace in Persepolis, the governor Orxines was hanged for plundering the temples and royal tombs and for unjustly killing people. Peucestas was appointed satrap of Persis. (Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 6.30.1–6.30.3)
The Indian sage Calanus fell ill in Persis and told Alexander that he would not live in sickness and would end his own life. (Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 7.3.1–7.3.6)
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). (Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 7.4.1–7.4.8)
Alexander ordered a register made to pay off his soldiers' debts, but at first few people came forward to report them. (Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 7.5.1–7.5.6)
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. (Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 7.6.1–7.6.5)
He had Hephaestion lead the main infantry to the Persian Gulf, while Alexander went down the Eulaeus river with the fleet to the sea. (Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 7.7.1–7.7.7)
At Opis Alexander declared that he would discharge the old and disabled soldiers, but the Macedonian soldiers took it as an insult and protested. (Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 7.8.1–7.8.2)
Alexander gave a speech recalling how Philip had raised the Macedonians from poor herdsmen to where they now stood. (Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 7.9.1–7.9.2)
Alexander shut himself in the palace for two days, and on the third day summoned the Persians and divided the command of the battalions among them. In the end the Macedonians came asking for reconciliation, and they were reconciled. (Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 7.11.1–7.11.9)