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Contents

Events

By Place

Western Roman Empire

Eastern Roman Empire

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Western Roman Empire

★ September 4 — Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed by Odoacer. Traditionally this was regarded as the date of the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the European Dark Ages.

Eastern Roman Empire

★ August — The usurper Basiliscus is deposed and Zeno is restored as Eastern Roman Emperor.

By Topic

Religion

★ Peter the Fuller is restored as Patriarch of Antioch.

Births

★ Aryabhata, Indian mathematician and astronomer

Deaths

★ August 28 — Flavius Orestes, master of soldiers of the Western Roman Empire

★ Emperor Xianwen of Northern Wei