Ilopango eruption
Ash smothers the southern Maya lands and empties villages
Central America's largest eruption in millennia, dated by Greenland ice cores to AD 429–433. Ash blanketed the southern Maya lands, and settlements for hundreds of kilometres around were temporarily abandoned.
Wikipedia (English) · 5th century
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 410 Sack of Rome by the Visigoths — 21 years earlier
Asia
- c. 427 Founding of Nalanda — 4 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Attila (aged 25)