CORRELATION OF MAYA AND CHRISTIAN CHRONOLOGY. 491 
Finally, Molina Solis fixes the date of Toral’s arrival at Campeche in the first 
days of August 1562, and the day of his solemn entry into Merida as August 15, 
1562, although he gives no authority for either statement.! 
Eliminating the obviously incorrect years of 1544 and 1546 which accompany 
the passages describing this event in III, IV, and IX, it is fair to say that all of our 
sources are again in most satisfactory agreement, both as to the katun and the 
Christian year in which Event E occurred, there being perfect unanimity of record 
as to the following points: 
(1) That it took place in 1562. 
(2) That it took place in a Katun 9 Ahau. 
In only one source (X) is the tun also given, but this time it is found to agree 
with the correlation established under Event B. In this correlation the sixth tun 
of Katun 9 Ahau began somewhere between 1561.354 and 1561.727, and ended 
somewhere between 1562.340 and 1562.713. 
If, now, we accept Molina Solis’s statement that Event E took place some 
time early in August 1562, say from August I to 15, expressed decimally from 
1562.583 to 1562.622, and further, if we accept the statement in X that it took 
place in the sixth tun of Katun 9 Ahau, we can reduce the period where correlation 
is possible within the limits fixed by Events A, B, C, and D from four and a half 
months to one and a half months. ‘This is true because if the sixth tun of Katun 9 
Ahau starts any earlier than 1561.597, then its end will fall before 1562.583, the 
earliest possible date for Event E, according to Molina Solis, and Event E will not 
fall in the sixth tun of Katun 9 Ahau, as stated in X, but in the seventh tun. 
This reduction of the possible margin of correlation under Event B fits Events 
A, C, and D without violating any of those larger statements of fact upon which only 
this correlation is based, and gives for the period in which the end of Katun 13 Ahau 
could fall and yet agree with the details of Event FE, as given by Molina Solis and X, 
1536.956 to 1537.086, the final limit remaining unchanged. ‘These dates are 
between December 15, 1536, and February 1, 1537 inclusive, while Goodman, 
through a process he does not explain, states that Katun 11 Ahau among the 
Itza, Cocom, and Chel began on December 25, 1536,” 7. ¢., precisely within this 
same brief period. 
EvENT F. 
This event, the death of Bishop Landa, is given with absolute agreement in 
terms of the u kahlay katunob in III, IV, IX, and X, while VI fixes it in terms of 
Christian chronology: 
“Tn [Katun] 7 Ahau died the first bishop de Landa.’* (III.) 
“{Katun] 7 Ahau; bishop Landa died in this katun.’’* (IV.) 
“(Katun] 7 Ahau; bishop Landa died.’*® (IX.) 
“(Katun] 7 Ahau; no stone was taken; in this katun died Bishop Landa, then also came 
the bishop his successor.’® (X.) re 
“He [Bishop Landa] died on the 29th of April, 1579, with 38 years in Religion, 30 as 
minister and Apostle of this land, and 6 not completed in the possession of its bishopric, and 
the whole course of his life being 54 years.” (VI.) 
Here again we have unanimous agreement, the four native authorities all 
stating that Event F took place in a Katun 7 Ahau and Cogolludo giving not only 
the Christian year but the day and month as well—April 29, 1579, 1. ¢., 1579.326. 
en II cle ge oo he eel rey dha hi at a Aa lS 
1Molina Solis, 1904, pp. 66, 68. 2Goodman, 1905, p. 645. 
3Brinton, 1882, p. 104. s]bid., p. 149. 5Tbid., p. 162. 6] bid., p. 172, translation corrected by Gates. 
7Cogolludo, 1688, p. 362. 
