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Events relating to the maya
The Maya are believed to have lived in the same region from about 1500 BC to the present day - America's longest example of continuity
The Maya independently develop the concept of place value in numbers, previously pioneered in Babylon
The Maya introduce a calendar which has a cycle of fifty-two years, known as the Calendar Round
The temple city of Tikal is one of many Mayan city states of the Classic period
Beans are gathered by the Maya from wild cocoa trees and are probably used in a chocolate drink
The Mayan city of Chichén Itzá is captured by the Toltecs
The US consul in Mexico, Edward Herbert Thompson, begins a very profitable excavation at the Mayan site of Chichén Itzá
The Russian poet and dramatist Vladimir Mayakovsky publishes his first major long poem, A Cloud in Trousers
Vladimir Mayakovsky's play The Bedbug is directed in Moscow by Meyerhold with incidental music by Shostakovich
US author Maya Angelou publishes her autobiographical first novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings