Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Odoacer deposes the last emperor and Antiquity ends
The Germanic commander Odoacer deposed the young emperor Romulus Augustulus and sent the imperial regalia to Constantinople. The year is traditionally taken as the end of the Western Roman Empire and the line between antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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The Eastern Roman Empire outlived the Western one by almost 1,000 years: Rome fell in 476, Constantinople only in 1453.
Twenty-three years after the Western Roman Empire fell, India's Aryabhata wrote that the sky only appears to move — it is the Earth that rotates.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- c. 500 Completion of the Babylonian Talmud — 24 years later
Americas
- c. 500 Rise of Tiwanaku — 24 years later