What is 336 BC?
{{Year nav|-336}} {{BC year in topic|336}} __NOTOC__ Year '''336 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. == Events == <onlyinclude> === By place === ==== Persian Empire ==== * The young king of [[Achaemenid Empire|Persia]], [[Arses of Persia|Arses]], objects to being controlled by [[Bagoas]] and attempts to poison him. Instead, Arses and all his children are killed by Bagoas. * Bagoas then seeks to install a new monarch who will be easier to control. He chooses [[Darius III|Codomannus]], a distant relative of the royal house, who takes the name [[Darius III of Persia|Darius III]]. When Darius tries to assert his independence from Bagoas' control, Bagoas attempts to poison him. The king is warned and makes Bagoas drink the poison himself. ==== Greece ==== * Following [[Philip II of Macedon]]'s marriage to [[Cleopatra Eurydice of Macedon|Eurydice]], [[Alexander the Great|Alexander]] and his mother, [[Olympias]], flee to [[Epirus]], with [[Alexander the Great|Alexander]] later moving to [[Illyria]]. However, shortly afterward, father and son are reconciled and Alexander returns. * Macedonian troops, commanded by [[Parmenion]], trusted lieutenant of Philip II, arrive in [[Asia Minor]]. They are driven back by Persian forces under the command of the Greek mercenary [[Memnon of Rhodes]]. * At a grand celebration of his daughter [[Cleopatra of Macedonia|Cleopatra's]] marriage to [[Alexander I of Epirus]] (brother of Olympias), Philip II is assassinated at [[Aegae]] by [[Pausanias of Orestis]], a young Macedonian noble with a bitter grievance against the young queen's uncle [[Attalus (general)|Attalus]] and against Philip for denying him justice. Pausanias is killed on the spot. * Philip II of Macedon is succeeded by his son [[Alexander the Great|Alexander III]]. One of the leading generals in Macedonia at the death of Philip II, [[Antipater]], helps to secure the succession to the Macedonian throne for Alexander. * The Macedonian general Parmenion declares for Alexander III. He helps