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Years: 472 473 474 475 - 476 - 477 478 479 480
Decades: 440s 450s 460s - 470s - 480s 490s 500s
Centuries: 4th century - 5th century - 6th century

Events

August - The usurper Basiliscus is deposed and Zeno is restored as Eastern Roman Emperor.
September 4 - Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself King of Italy. Conventional date for the fall of the Roman Empire, and widely considered the end of ancient history (and hence the beginning of the European Dark Ages). However the Eastern Roman Empire survives the event.
The beginning of the Middle Ages.
Peter the Fuller is restored as Patriarch of Antioch.

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