* Alexander the Great spends the summer and autumn at the Median capital, Ecbatana, where his best friend, Hephaistion, dies during the autumn.

Hephaestion (, alternative spelling: " Hephaistion "; c. 356 BC – 324 BC ), son of Amyntor, was a Macedonian nobleman and a general in the army of Alexander the Great.

Hephaistion Amyntoros: Eminence Grise at the Court of Alexander the Great.

Alexander the Great, Hephaistion, and the Nature of Their Relationship.

In the 1980s, his notable starring TV roles included: Alexander the Great's close companion Hephaistion in the PBS miniseries The Search for Alexander the Great ; serial killer Neville Heath in an episode of the murder-trial reenactment series Ladykillers ( 1981 ); naive Scot turned powerful South African magnate Jamie MacGregor in the miniseries Master of the Game ( 1984 ); Bonnie Prince Charlie in Scotland's Story ( 1984 ); romantic lead Clarence Dandridge in the period miniseries Louisiana ( 1984 ) opposite Margot Kidder ; and protagonist Victor Geary in the stylish and clever Oxbridge Blues ( 1984 ), written by Frederic Raphael, directed by James Cellan Jones, and co-starring Amanda Redman, Rosalyn Landor, and Malcolm Stoddard.

She movingly explores the tensions in the triangular relationship between Alexander and his two lovers, Hephaistion and Bagoas, and suggests that Alexander went mad with grief over Hephaistion's untimely death.

However, she points out, quite correctly, that the historical sources name Bagoas, not Hephaistion, as the eromenos (" beloved ") of Alexander.

Alexander was then in the company of generals Hephaistion and Parmenion stepped into a tomb, which contained several stone sarcophagi.

According to the Lanercost Chronicle, Alexander did not spend his decade as a widower alone: " he used never to forbear on account of season nor storm, nor for perils of flood or rocky cliffs, but would visit none too creditably nuns or matrons, virgins or widows as the fancy seized him, sometimes in disguise.

Alexander died in a fall from his horse in the dark while riding to visit the queen at Kinghorn in Fife on 18 March 1286 because it was her birthday the next day.

He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

Following the visit of a diplomatic mission from the Eastern Roman Empire led by Alexander, Huneric restored properties seized by his father from the merchants of Carthage.

However, following a visit in early August to Egypt by British prime minister Winston Churchill and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Alan Brooke, Alexander flew to Cairo on 8 August to replace Claude Auchinleck as the Commander-in-Chief of Middle East Command, the post responsible for the overall conduct of the campaign in the desert of North Africa.

However, though the post-war period saw a boom in prosperity for Canada, the country was again at war by 1950, with Alexander, in his role as acting commander-in-chief, deploying to the Korean War soldiers, sailors, and airmen, whom he would visit prior to their departure for north-east Asia.

330s BCE ), Macedonian historian and theologian in Egypt during Alexander the Great's visit

In June 1866, while on a visit to Copenhagen, the Tsarevich Alexander asked Dagmar for her hand.

Russia's Tsar Alexander II and his chancellor Prince Gorchakov, at the time on a state visit to Germany, seized the opportunity to inject themselves as European peace makers.

Indeed, in the first year of his reign, Alexander VII lived simply and forbade his relations even to visit Rome.

On 11 June, he confirmed the Minor Observantines in the Holy Land in the privileges and indulgences granted to those who visit the holy places, according to the decree of Popes Alexander VII and Clement IX.

* October 9 – King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French foreign minister Louis Barthou are assassinated during the king's state visit in Marseilles.

Louth Contemporary Music Society invited the US composer Terry Riley to perform in Drogheda in 2007, Arvo Pärt's first Irish commission and visit to the country was in Drogheda in February 2008, Michael Nyman performed in Drogheda in May 2008, John Tavener's Temenos festival was held in October 2008 and the Russian composer Alexander Knaifel was the focus of a portrait concert as part of the Drogheda Arts festival on 1 May 2009.

It took its later and more magnificent form after the visit of Pope Alexander III and the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I to Venice in 1177.

A panoramic pavilion had been built there at the time of the visit of Alexander I but it had already vanished by the 1850s.

The next day ( November 28 ), the French Emperor requested a personal interview with Alexander I and received a visit from the Tsar's most impetuous aide, Count Dolgorouki.

Lanfranc, during a visit which he paid the pope for the purpose of receiving his pallium, obtained an order from Alexander that the disputed points should be settled by a council of the English Church.

After his visit Alexander wrote to the CIGS, Alan Brooke, saying: Lucas wrote in his diary on February 15:

Diodorus, Arrian and Curtius all describe the scene, when Alexander and Hephaestion went together to visit the captured Persian royal family.

It happened right at the beginning of the campaign in Asia, when Alexander led a contingent of the army to visit Troy, scene of the events in his beloved Iliad.

" Aelian takes the latter view when he uses just such an expression when describing the visit to Troy: " Alexander laid a garland on Achilles ' tomb and Hephaestion on Patroclus ', indicating that he was Alexander's eromenos, as Patroclus was of Achilles.

Alexander the Great's visit to Merv is merely legendary, but the city was named Alexandria for a time.

During a visit to Thessaly in 1896, the late professor Alexander Philadelpheus delivered to us valuable information on the origins of the word " ouzo ", which has come to replace the word " tsipouro ".

Catherine first met Alexander when she was twelve and he paid a visit to her father's estate.

Alexander met the sixteen-year-old Catherine there on an official visit to the school in the fall of 1864 and was immediately attracted.

As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.

The states of Thessaly, which had previously acknowledged the authority of Jason of Pherae, were not so willing to submit to Alexander the tyrant, ( especially the old family of the Aleuadae of Larissa, who had most reason to fear him ).

In 1284, Alexander invested the title of Lord of the Isles in the head of the Macdonald family, Angus Macdonald, and over the next two centuries the Macdonald lords operated as if they were kings in their own right, frequently opposing the Scottish monarch.

She arranged for Alexander to marry Sallustia Orbiana, the daughter of a noble Patrician family, but grew so jealous of Sallustia ’ s influence over her son that she had her banished from court.

Alexander Grothendieck was born in Berlin to anarchist parents: a Ukrainian father from an ultimately Hassidic family, Alexander " Sascha " Shapiro aka Tanaroff, and a mother from a German Protestant family, Johanna " Hanka " Grothendieck ; both of his parents had broken away from their early backgrounds in their teens.

Alexander Kerensky was born in Simbirsk ( now Ulyanovsk ) on the Volga River into the family of a secondary school principal.

* Bell Telephone Company, founded in 1877 by family of Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander VI staked the hopes of the Borgia family in Cesare's brother Giovanni, who was made captain general of the military forces of the papacy.

His second son Alexander became King, while the remaining royal family and the most prominent royalists followed into exile.

When Karađorđe was killed by Miloš Obrenović, a feud between the two houses of Karađorđević and the Obrenović developed which lasted until the Obrenović King Alexander I was killed in 1903 with his family and the Karadjordjević returned to the throne.

His father was Herman Alexander Neumann, originally from the German city of Bromberg ( now in Poland ) who had emigrated with his family to London at the age of 15.

Dagmar was warmly welcomed in Kronstadt by Alexander II of Russia and all his family.

Empress Maria with her son, future Nicholas IIThe family of Alexander III being blessed by Jesus Christ in a portrait by Makarov. On the morning of 13 March 1881, Alexander II, aged sixty-two, was killed by a bomb on the way back to the Winter Palace from a military parade.

Because of the many threats against Maria and Alexander III, the head of the security police, General Cherevin, shortly after the coronation urged the Tsar and his family to relocate to Gatchina Palace, a more secure location 50 kilometres outside St. Petersburg.

Nonetheless, Alexander ’ s family heraldic emblems of the mons or mountains with stars and oak leaves, adorn Borromini ’ s church of Sant ' Ivo alla Sapienza and many other works of his reign

In 1409 he took part in the Council of Pisa, and was one of the supporters of Antipope Alexander V. Later he confirmed his allegiance to another antipope, John XXIII, by whom his family obtained several privileges, while Oddone obtained for himself the vicariate of Todi, Orvieto, Perugia and Umbria.

Like Pope Innocent III ( 1198 – 1216 ), Pope Gregory IX ( 1227 – 1241 ) and Pope Alexander IV ( 1254 – 1261 ), he was a member of the family of the Conti, counts and dukes of Segni.

During the reign of Ivan the Terrible, the former family became known as Yakovlev ( Alexander Herzen being the most illustrious of them ), whereas grandchildren of Roman Zakharin-Yuriev changed their name to Romanov.

After the February Revolution, Nicholas II and his family were placed under house arrest in the Alexander Palace.

Bruce's family also included his brothers, Edward, Alexander, Thomas, and Neil, his sisters Christina, Isabel ( Queen of Norway ), Margaret, Matilda, and Mary, and his nephews Donald II, Earl of Mar and Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray.

Alexander Ivanovich Tolstoy ( 1770 – 1857 ), stemming from a collateral branch of the family, inherited the committal title and estates of his childless uncle, the last of the Ostermanns.