480s
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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
| Centuries: | 4th century – 5th century – 6th century |
| Decades: | 450s 460s 470s – 480s – 490s 500s 510s |
| Years: | 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 |
| Categories: | Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments |
480s: events by year
Contents: 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489
480
By place
Europe
- Odoacer defeats an attempt by Julius Nepos to recapture Italy, and has Julius killed.
- Odoacer captures Dalmatia.
- Ireland: The Diocese of Connor is erected.
Asia
- Narasimhagupta Baladitya succeeds his father Skandagupta as ruler of the Gupta Empire.
482
By place
Eastern Roman Empire
- Byzantine emperor Zeno issues the Henotikon, an attempt to reconcile the differences between the supporters of Chalcedonian faith and Monophysitism.
Asia
- Qi Gao Di becomes ruler of the Chinese Southern Qi Dynasty.
483
By place
Eastern Roman Empire
- General Illus and Verina attempt to overthrow Emperor Zeno and place a general named Leontius on the throne. Zeno defeats this attempt.
By topic
Religion
- March 13 – Pope Felix III succeeds Pope Simplicius as the 48th pope.
484
By place
Europe
- December 28 – Alaric II succeeds Euric as king of the Visigoths.
- Gunthamund becomes king of the Vandals.
- Gundobad proclaims the Burgundian Code
Asia
- The Hephthalites invade Persia, and Peroz I is killed in battle; Balash becomes king of Persia.
- The Nvarsak Treaty is concluded between the Persians and Armenians.
By topic
Religion
- Pope Felix III excommunicates Peter Mongus, patriarch of Alexandria, and Acacius, patriarch of Constantinople, causing a schism between eastern and western Christianity that lasts 35 years (the Acacian schism).
485
By place
Europe
- Aelle of Sussex fights the Brythons at the stream of Mearcread.
By topic
Religion
- Peter the Fuller is excommunicated by a synod in Rome.
486
By place
Europe
- Roman rule in Gaul ends with the defeat at Soissons of the Roman governor Syagrius by the Franks under Clovis I. The land between the Loire and the Somme becomes a part of the Frankish realm.
- The Battle of Mercredesburne is fought between Aelle's army and the Britons. The battle ended in a draw.
487
488
By place
Europe
- Theodoric the Great becomes king of the Ostrogoths.
- According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Hengist dies and is succeeded by his son Oisc as king of Kent.
Eastern Roman Empire
Asia
489
By place
Europe
- Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, continues his invasion of Italy with the approval of Byzantine emperor Zeno.
- August 28 – Theodoric defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
- September 27 – Battle of Verona: Odoacer attacks Theodoric again, and is defeated a second time.
Eastern Roman Empire
- Flavius Zeno (emperor) closes the School of Edessa for their teaching of Nestorian doctrine.
By topic
Religion
- The first Confucian Temple is constructed in north China (outside the ancestral temple at Qufu).
