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The year 476 of the Julian calendar traditionally marks the fall of the Roman Empire and early Middle Ages (from other years are also cited for the early Middle Ages: 395, 511, 512).
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Africa
- According to the inscription of Arris , the Berber Master Chief hill tribes of the Aures , and proclaimed himself imperator reign forty years .
Asia
- Early reign of Budhagupta (fr) , Emperor Gupta of India (ending in 495 ) his empire still stretches Malwa in Bengal .
Europe
- Spring : Euric , king of the Visigoths , captured the Provence ( Arles , Marseille and several other fortresses ...) .
- August : End of reign of the usurper Basiliscus the Eastern Roman Empire. After chasing Zeno the throne in 475 , he makes himself very unpopular by raising taxes and wanting to impose monophysitism in the Empire, pushing the patriarch of Constantinople Acacius draped in black Hagia Sophia. Betrayed by the general Illus and his own nephew Armatus, Basiliscus can prevent Zeno returned to Constantinople in August, where he is warmly welcomed. Basiliscus died soon after, with his wife and children executed by order of Zeno .
- August 23 : Odoacer was proclaimed king at Pavia after having sacked the city .
- The Italian army has long been composed of Barbarians: Rugiens , Heruli , Skira , Turcilinges, among others. They seek the extension to the Italian system of tercia, the third of the land of the peninsula, following the example of other provinces. After the patrician Flavius Orestes , father of the young emperor Romulus Augustus , refused to grant them land, Heruli revolt and march on the Empire .
- August 28 : Orestes is captured in Placentia and executed .
- September 4 : After the fall of its capital Ravenna , Romulus Augustus was forced to abdicate by the Chief Heruli, Odoacer. This exile the former emperor in Campania and returns the imperial insignia to Constantinople , Zeno to recognize him as Patrick. Zeno the Emperor returns to legitimate Western Flavius Orestes had deposed, Julius Nepos , then fled to Dalmatia. Odoacer refuses and things are still there ( 477 ) . Apparently, Odoacer Government of Italy on behalf of one emperor, one of the East. In fact, the Western Empire ceased to exist.
- Zeno adopts Theodoric , king of Amali ( Ostrogoths ) .
- Odoacer deals with Genseric who gave him the Sicily except Lylibe .
Main article: Decline of the Western Roman Empire.
Births in 476
Deaths in 476
- August 28 : Flavius Orestes , leader of the Roman Empire.
References
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- Ernest Mercier, History of North Africa (Barbary) since the earliest times until the French conquest (1830), Elibron Classics series [ read online ]
- Edith Parlier Renault, Temples of South India (sixth - eighth centuries): the staging of the myths, Presses Sorbonne Paris, 2007 [ read online ]
- Demougeot Hattie, The formation of Europe and the barbarian invasions, Volume 2: From the accession of Diocletian (284) to the occupation of the Germanic Roman Empire (early sixth century), Aubier, 1979 [ read online ]
- Stephen Williams, Gerard Friel, John Gerard Paul Friel, The Rome That Did Not Fall: The Survival of the East in the fifth century, Routledge, 1999 [ read online ]
- a , b , c and d Sbastien Le Nain De Tillemont, History of emperors and other princes who reigned during the first six centuries of the Church, Volume 6, Francis Pitteri, Venice, 1739 [ read online ]
- Eduard von Muralt test chronography Byzantine: To be used to review the annals of the Lower Empire and especially chronographs Slavonic of 395 for 1057, Eggers, St. Petersburg, 1855 [ read online ]
- Ferdinand Lot, Christian Pfister, Francois Louis Ganshof, The destinies of the empire in the West from 395 to 888, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1928 [ read online ]
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