Ancient Rome · TURNING POINT ·
Deposition of Romulus Augustulus (476)
On the Ancient Rome map as “476: the end in the West”
4 Sep 476 — Odoacer deposes the boy-emperor Romulus Augustulus and sends the imperial regalia to Constantinople: the West needs no emperor of its own. Almost nobody notices.
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- Turning point
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- Fall of the Western Roman Empire (chapter 11 of Ancient Rome)
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- The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476
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