Year 323 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Longus and Cerretanus (or, less frequently, year 431 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 323 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Macedonian Empire 10 June/11 June – In Babylon, Alexander the Great dies, ten days after being taken ill after a prolonged banquet and drinking bout. Diogenes, the philosopher he met years before, when he was just about to set out on his conquests, allegedly dies on the exact same day. The Partition of Babylon sets out the division of the territories conquered by Alexander the Great between his generals. The partition is a result of a compromise, essentially brokered by Eumenes, following a conflict of opinion between the party of Meleager, who wishes to give full power to Philip III (the illegitimate son of King Philip II of Macedon by Philinna of Larissa), and the party of Perdiccas, who wishes to wait for the birth of the heir of Alexander and his wife, Roxana (the future Alexander IV) to give him the throne under the control of a regent. Under the agreement, Philip III becomes king, but Perdiccas, as the regent, effectively becomes the ruler of Alexander's empire. Perdiccas manages the partition of the territories between the former generals and saintly with Alexander's chief lieutenant Craterus); Laomedon governing Syria and Phoenicia; Philotas looking after Cilicia; Peithon taking Media; Antigonus gaining the governorship of Pamphylia and Lycia; Leonnatus with Phrygia; Neoptolemus with Armenia; Ptolemy as governor of Egypt; Eumenes of Cardia as governor of Cappadocia and Paphlagonia; and Lysimachus becomes governor of Thrace. Perdiccas exercises a wide authority in Asia as “supreme general”. Perdiccas largely leaves Alexander's arrangements intact: Taxiles and Porus are to rule over their kingdoms in India; Alexander's father-in-law Oxyartes rules Gandhara; Sibyrtius governs Arachosia and Gedrosia; Stasanor rules in Aria and Drangiana; Philip controls Bactria and Sogdiana; Phrataphernes rules Parthia and Hyrcania; Peucestas governs Persis; Tlepolemus is left in charge of Carmania; Atropates governs northern Media; Archon of Pella controls Babylonia; and Arcesilas rules northern Mesopotamia. Alexander orders demolition of the ziggurat at Etemenanki. Meleager and about 300 of his partisans are killed by forces loyal to Perdiccas. The