327 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC 4th century BC 3rd century BC
Decades:	340s BC 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC
Years:	330 BC 329 BC 328 BC 327 BC 326 BC 325 BC 324 BC

327 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	327 BC CCCXXVII BC
Ab urbe condita	427
Ancient Egypt era	XXXII dynasty, 6
- Pharaoh	Alexander the Great, 6
Ancient Greek era	113th Olympiad, year 2
Assyrian calendar	4424
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−919
Berber calendar	624
Buddhist calendar	218
Burmese calendar	−964
Byzantine calendar	5182–5183
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 2371 or 2164     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 2372 or 2165
Coptic calendar	−610 – −609
Discordian calendar	840
Ethiopian calendar	−334 – −333
Hebrew calendar	3434–3435
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−270 – −269
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2774–2775
Holocene calendar	9674
Iranian calendar	948 BP – 947 BP
Islamic calendar	977 BH – 976 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2007
Minguo calendar	2238 before ROC 民前2238年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1794
Thai solar calendar	216–217
Tibetan calendar	阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) −200 or −581 or −1353     — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) −199 or −580 or −1352

Year 327 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Philo (or, less frequently, year 427 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 327 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

• Alexander the Great invades northern India. Recrossing the Hindu Kush, Alexander divides his forces. Half the army with the baggage under Hephaestion and Perdiccas, both cavalry commanders, are sent through the Khyber Pass, while Alexander leads the rest, together with his siege train, through the hills to the north. His advance through Swat and Gandhara is marked by the storming of the almost impregnable pinnacle of Aornos, a few miles west of the Indus.
• The relations between Alexander and Aristotle are embittered by the execution of Aristotle's nephew, the historian Callisthenes of Olynthus, who is charged with treason. Callisthenes has been accompanying Alexander to write a chronicle of the campaign.

Roman Republic

• The Samnite army captures Neapolis (present-day Naples). The Romans, who are meanwhile moving south while the Samnites are occupied with Tarentum, take the opportunity to recover Neapolis and, after a long siege, evict the Samnite garrison from the city and make it an ally of Rome.

Births

• Heracles, illegitimate son of Alexander the Great by his mistress Barsine, daughter of Satrap Artabazus of Phrygia and later claimant to the throne of Macedon (d. 309 BC)
• Moggaliputta-Tissa, Indian Buddhist monk, scholar and philosopher (approximate date)

Deaths

• Callisthenes of Olynthus, Greek historian, great nephew and pupil of Aristotle (b. c. 360 BC)