Earliest Long Count date
First record of the calendar the Maya would later use
Stela 2 at Chiapa de Corzo bears the date 7.16.3.2.13 — December 36 BC, the oldest known Mesoamerican Long Count inscription. The calendar, later used by the Maya, counted days from a mythical starting point in 3114 BC.
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The earliest known Long Count calendar date in Mesoamerica is 36 BC — just five years before the Battle of Actium.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 58 BC–50 BC Caesar's conquest of Gaul — 22 years earlier
- 44 BC Assassination of Julius Caesar — 8 years earlier
- 31 BC Battle of Actium — 5 years later
- 27 BC Octavian becomes Augustus — 9 years later
Africa
- 30 BC Death of Cleopatra — 6 years later
Alive at the time
- Cleopatra (aged 33)
- Augustus (aged 27)
- Herod the Great (aged 36)
- Virgil (aged 34)
- Amanirenas (aged 24)
- Livia Drusilla (aged 23)