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TIMELINE OF RELEVANT EVENTS

JULY 20, 356 BCE – Alexander of Macedonia is born.

336 BCE – Philip II is murdered. Alexander becomes king.

334 BCE – Alexander crosses into Asia Minor and begins his conquests

SEPTEMBER 326 BCE – The Asia campaign ends in India when Alexander’s army revolts. Alexander returns west.

OCTOBER 324 BCE – Hephaestion dies.

JUNE 10, 323 BCE – Alexander dies in Babylon. His generals divide the empire. Ptolemy claims Egypt.

321 BCE – Alexander’s funeral cortege leaves for Macedonia. Ptolemy attacks the procession. The body is taken to Egypt.

305 BCE – Ptolemy is crowned pharaoh.

283 BCE – Ptolemy dies.

215 BCE – Ptolemy IV erects the Soma to house Alexander’s remains.

100 CE - St. Mark is martyred in Alexandria, his body hidden.

391 CE – The Soma is destroyed and Alexander the Great vanishes.

828 CE – St. Mark’s body is stolen from Alexandria by Venetian merchants, taken to Venice, and stored in the Doge’s palace, its whereabouts lost over time.

JUNE 1094 CE – Body of St. Mark reappears in Venice.

1835 CE – St. Mark is moved from the crypt to beneath the main altar of the basilica that bears his name.