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493

February 25 - Odoacer agrees to a mediated peace with Theodoric the Great, and is later killed by him personally. Theodoric becomes king of the Ostrogoths and moves the capital to Ravenna.

Charming! :no:

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492

March 1 - Pope Gelasius I succeeds Pope Felix III as the 49th Pope.

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491

Ælle sieges and conquers the fortified town of Anderitum in southern Britain

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490

Italy- April 1 - The majority of Odoacer's army, including his magister militum Tufa, surrenders to Theodoric the Great in Milan.

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189

First Confucian Temple constructed in north China (outside the ancestral temple at Qufu).

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K'lyn, should that be 489?? :winky:

Ok to move on:

488

* 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.
* Theodoric the Great invades Italy.

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487

April 17 - Proclus, a famed Neoplatonic philosopher, dies.



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486

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.

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485

Italy-Peter the Fuller is excommunicated by a synod in Rome.

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484

The Hephthalites invade Persia, and Peroz I is killed in battle; Balash becomes king of Persia.