⚔ Battle · ★ Major
Battle of the Hydaspes
326 BCE – present · 📍 Jhelum river
Alexander of Macedon defeats Porus.
What it led to: Alexander won but restored Porus as a vassal king.
Where it happened.
Meanwhile (within 10 years)
- 327 BCE ⚔ Alexander crosses the Hindu Kush into Gandhara
- 326 BCE Alexander's army mutinies at the Beas
- 325 BCE Alexander's army sails down the Indus
- c. 321 BCE Chandragupta Maurya overthrows the Nandas · Mauryan Empire
- c. 317 BCE ⚔ Chandragupta takes the northwest from Alexander's satraps · Mauryan Empire
Alive at the time
Chanakya (Kautilya)
active c. 320 BCE
Author of the Arthashastra and adviser to Chandragupta Maurya
Megasthenesactive c. 300 BCE
Greek envoy to Pataliputra who wrote the Indica
Alexander the Great356–323 BCE
Macedonian king who invaded the northwest in 326 BCE
Porusactive c. 326 BCE
King who fought Alexander at the Hydaspes
Seleucus I Nicatorc. 358–281 BCE
Hellenistic king who ceded the northwest to Chandragupta Maurya