1. Birth of Alexander IV

   0323-01-01 BC · Babylon, Babylonia, present-day Iraq

   

   Roxana gave birth to Alexander IV, Alexander the Great’s posthumous legitimate son, at Babylon. The birth made her and her child central to the imperial succession crisis. The source gives August 323 BC; the card retains year precision because the chronology’s date field uses BC-era year notation.

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