476
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This article is about the year 476. For the number see 476 (number). For other uses, see 476 (disambiguation).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 4th century – 5th century – 6th century |
| Decades: | 440s 450s 460s – 470s – 480s 490s 500s |
| Years: | 473 474 475 – 476 – 477 478 479 |
| 476 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 476 CDLXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1229 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 5226 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1368–-1367 |
| Bengali calendar | -117 |
| Berber calendar | 1426 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1020 |
| Burmese calendar | -162 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5984–5985 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙卯年十一月十九日 (3112/3172-11-19) — to —
丙辰年十一月三十日(3113/3173-11-30) |
| Coptic calendar | 192–193 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 468–469 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4236–4237 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 532–533 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 398–399 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3577–3578 |
| Holocene calendar | 10476 |
| Igbo calendar | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | -524–-523 |
| Iranian calendar | 146 BP – 145 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 151 BH – 150 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | 476 CDLXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 2809 |
| Minguo calendar | 1436 before ROC 民前1436年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1019 |
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Year 476 (CDLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Basiliscus and Armatus (or, less frequently, year 1229 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 476 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events [edit]
By place [edit]
Roman Empire [edit]
- Summer – Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati), visits the imperial palace at Ravenna. He petitions Orestes (magister militum) to reward his mercenaries for their services and their support of his rebellion a year earlier, by making good on his promise to grant them lands to settle permanently in Italy. Orestes refuse this proposal and Odoacer leads his tribesmen in a revolt.
- August – Basiliscus, Roman usurper, is deposed and Zeno is restored as emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire. With support of his adviser Illus, he besieged Constantinople, but the Senate opened the gates, allowing him to resume the throne. Basiliscus flees to sanctuary in a church, but surrenders himself and his family after extracting a solemn promise from Zeno not to shed their blood. He sends him to a fortress in Cappadocia where he later dies from starvation.
- August 23 – Odoacer, age 43, is proclaimed rex Italiae ("king of Italy") by his troops. He leads his Ostrogoth army into the Po Valley and advances to Ravenna while plundering the countryside.
- September 4 – : Romulus Augustus, Roman usurper of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed by Odoacer at Ravenna. Odoacer spares the boy's life and gives him a pension of 6,000 solidii but exiles him to the "Castellum Lucullanum" (Castel dell'Ovo), on the island of Megaride, in the Gulf of Naples. His father Orestes is arrested a week earlier near Piacenza and swiftly executed. This event would late be romanticized in Western literature and history as the Fall of Rome and is traditionally used by historians to mark the beginning of the European Middle Ages.
- Julius Nepos, de jure ruler, becomes legally the last "Western Roman Emperor." He governs Dalmatia (Balkans), Morocco, and Northwest Gaul until his death 480, but has no effective power on the Italian Peninsula.
- Odoacer crosses the Maritime Alps with a Gothic army and invades Provence (Southern Gaul). He conquers the cities of Arles and Marseilles, after a victorious battle against the Burgundians.
- The Visigoths under king Euric march into Italy and suffer defeat against the forces of Odoacer. Emperor Zeno concludes a peace treaty between the Goths and Odoacer surrenders the newly conquered territory in Gaul. Euric pledged himself to undertake no further hostilities.
- The Roman Senate petitions Zeno to recognize Nepos as deposed and take the sole emperorship himself, abolishing the 91 year east/west division of the empire and recognizing Odoacer's authority in Italy. Zeno declines the first request, but names Odoacer Patricius, investing his rule with Imperial legitimacy.
- Winter – Zeno recognizes the full extent of the Vandal Kingdom, including all of western Africa, the Balearic Islands, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily. King Genseric gives Sicily, with exception of the city of Lilybaeum, to Odoacer in return for tribute.
India [edit]
- The birth of Aryabhata is traditionally regarded as the beginning of the classical period of Indian mathematics and astronomy.
China [edit]
- Xian Wen Di, Retired Emperor of Northern Wei, is murdered by Empress Feng. She assumes regency over the young Xiao Wen Di.
By topic [edit]
Religion [edit]
- Peter the Fuller is restored as patriarch of Antioch.
Births [edit]
- Aryabhata, Indian mathematician and astronomer (d. 550)
- Hilary of Galeata, Christian monk and saint (d. 558)
Deaths [edit]
- Basiliscus, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire
- Marcus, co-Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire
- August 28 – Orestes, Roman politician and regent
- Xian Wen Di, Chinese Emperor of Northern Wei (b. 454)
References [edit]
- The movie "476 A.D.", about Romulus Augustus's deposition by Odoacer, the Chieftain of the Ostrogoths, and the End of the Roman Empire, will be released in 2013, by Ivan Pavletić
