Codex Black Timeline

The following is a timeline of the important events related to the story of *Codex Black*, including events that occurred prior to the beginning of the story but still have an important effect on it and its characters.

# Timeline by year

## 1410's

* **1417**: Huitzilihuitl dies, and Chimalpopoca succeeds him as the 3rd Mexica Lord of Tenochtitlan when he was just a child, in the time in which the city was subject to the power of Azcapotzalco.
* **1418**: Yalaana, *Huijatao* of Lyobaa, is born on an 11-Death day (9/4).

## 1420's

* **1426**: Chimalpopoca is murdered, allegedly by Maxtla, the new Lord of Azcapotzalco. His uncle, Itzcoatl, becomes the 4th Mexica Lord of Tenochtitlan.
* **1427**: Tenochtitlan revolts against the Tepanec Empire of Azcapotzalco together with Texcoco and Tlacopan.
* **1428**: Birth of the Triple Alliance, conformed by the three cities, thus becoming the greatest rising power of the Anahuac.

## 1440's

* **1440**: Itzcoatl dies and his nephew, Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina, becomes the 5th Mexica Emperor.
* **1447**: Snow falls and covers the Anahuac in an unusual event, ruining crops and causing people to die due to the abnormal cold weather. This will be followed by a drought that would last for years throughout the end of the 40's decade and the first years of the 50's.

## 1450's

* **1454**:
-Famine strikes the Anahuac, due to past years' unusual snow and droughts, food is scarce and lots of people die in the cities of the Triple Alliance and its neighbors'.
-Tliltototl is born on a 4-Snake day (4/27).
* **1455**: Ahuizotl is born on a 7-Jaguar day (10/28).
* **1457**:
-Cosijoeza is born on a 7-Cloudy day (6/4).
-Béelia is born on a 1-Night day (10/6).
* **1458**: The Triple Alliance conquers the Mixtec city of **Yodzocoo** (Coixtlahuaca), the second largest marketplace of the entire Cemanahuac, and installs a puppet ruler.
* **1459**: Mexica merchants are slaughtered by the Zapotec people of **Luula'a** and Lyobaa, in the Southlands' Central Valleys. In response, Emperor Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina gathers a large army and razes the entire city, leaving few survivors which are taken captive. The place is then repopulated by Mexica colonizers and renamed **Huaxyacac**. Many years later, a fortified garrison will be built in this enclave.

## 1460's

* **1467**:
-Motecuhzoma II, son of Axayacatl, is born on an 8-Movement day (9/18).
- New Fire Ceremony.
* **1469**: Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina dies and his grandson, Axayacatl, becomes the 6th Mexica Emperor.

## 1470's

* **1474**:
-Axayacatl submits several Mazahua provinces and the Otomi lordship of Xiquipilco in the Matlatzinca Valley after they refused to pay taxes to the Triple Alliance.
-Citlalmina is born on a 7-Vulture day (2/12).
* **1475**:
-The mysterious man named Chinapii appears in Quie Yelaag and meets Béelia (18).
-Itzcacalotl is born on a 12-Lizard day (12/12).
* **1476**: Axayacatl conquers Malinalco.
* **1478**: Donaji is born on a 10-Jaguar day (3/21).
* **1479**:**Aztec-Tarascan War** - Axayacatl is defeated in Taximaroa by the Tarascan Empire, marking the first great defeat of the Triple Alliance since its establishment.

## 1480's

* **1481**: Axayacatl dies and his older brother, Tizoc, becomes the 7th Mexica Emperor.
* **1482**:
-Tizoc's military failures and mishaps erode Tenochtitlan's authority, and rebellions against the Triple Alliance spark all around the Cemanahuac.
-Chinapii leaves Quie Yelaag.
* **1486**:
-Tizoc dies under strange circumstances and his youngest brother, Ahuizotl (31), becomes the 8th Mexica Emperor.
-**Battle of Huitzo**: The Triple Alliance led by Ahuizotl, secretly in cahoots with Zaachila's king Cosijopii, fights against Mixtec forces in the Southlands. Ahuizotl orders the construction of the **hilltop fortress of Huaxyacac**, overseeing the Central Valleys.
* **1487**:
-Ahuizotl (32) starts two campaigns against the Cemanahuac Southlands and the Huasteca in the Eastern Coasts.
-Cosijoeza (30) becomes the *Coquitao*, "Great King" of Zaachila after the death of his father, Cosijopii.
-Inauguration ceremony of the Great Temple's expansion in Tenochtitlan under Ahuizotl's rule. Numerous war captives from the previous two campaigns were sacrificed for this celebration.
* **1488**: ***Donaji & the Magical Poncho*** - Donaji (9) receives Chicahualizteotl's Magical *Poncho* from Béelia and allegedly drives off from Quie Yelaag the mischievous god of cold and ice, Itztlacoliuhqui (3/20).

## 1490's

* **1490**:
-An entire city mysteriously vanishes from one day to another in the Eastern Coasts.
-Citlalmina (16) meets the "skull goddess" and begins wandering around the Cemanahuac.
* **1493**: ***Codex Black*** - Donaji (15) and Itzcacalotl (17) meet.