The founding of Copán's dynasty
An outsider founds a dynasty that ruled for nearly 400 years
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In 426 Kʼinich Yax Kʼukʼ Moʼ, linked to Teotihuacan and Tikal, took power in Copán. Fifteen more rulers followed, all shown on Altar Q, set up in 776. The founder's tomb was found beneath the Copán acropolis in the 1990s, and analysis of his bones showed he had grown up elsewhere.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 410 Sack of Rome by the Visigoths — 16 years earlier
Middle East
- c. 405 Mesrop Mashtots creates the Armenian alphabet — 21 years earlier
Asia
- c. 427 Founding of Nalanda — 1 year later
Alive at the time
- Augustine of Hippo (aged 72)
- Attila (aged 20)