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Romulus Augustus (c. 465 – after 511 [b]), nicknamed Augustulus, was Roman emperor of the West from 31 October 475 until 4 September 476. Romulus was placed on the imperial throne while still a minor by his father Orestes , the magister militum , for whom he served as little more than a figurehead.
Romulus was never recognized outside Italy as a legitimate ruler. [278] In 476, Orestes refused to honour his promises of land to his mercenaries, who revolted under the leadership of Odoacer. Orestes fled to the city of Pavia on August 23, 476, where the city's bishop gave him sanctuary. Orestes was soon forced to flee Pavia, when Odoacer's ...
Romulus Augustus: 475–476 (Not recognized by Eastern emperor) [202] Romulus Augustus was crowned as Western emperor after his father Orestes deposed Julius Nepos. [82] The rule of Romulus would be brief; in the autumn of 476 the foederati under the control of Odoacer rebelled when their demands for a third of the land of Italy were ignored. [203]
Most chronologies place the end of the Western Roman Empire in 476, when Romulus Augustulus was forced to abdicate to the Germanic warlord Odoacer. [15] The Eastern empire exercised diminishing control over the west over the course of the next century and was reduced to Anatolia and the Balkans by the 7th.
From a legal point of view, the Roman Empire, founded by Augustus in 27 BC and divided after the death of Theodosius I in 395 into two "parts" (or rather courts, as the empire continued to be considered as one), had survived only in the eastern part which, with the deposition of the last western emperor, Romulus Augustulus, in 476, had also ...
Romulus Augustus resigns the Crown. Castel dell'Ovo (Gulf of Naples). Year 476 was a leap year starting on Thursday 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).
Odoacer's deposition of Romulus Augustus, occurring in 476 AD, was a coup that marked the end of the reign of the Western Roman Emperor last approved by the Western Roman Senate and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy through Odoacer's decision to adopt the title of Dux/Rex Italiae(Duke/King of Italy), although Julius Nepos exercised control over Dalmatia until 480.
Nepos appointed Orestes (father of Romulus Augustulus) Magister militum and commander-in-chief of the Western Roman military. 28 August: Orestes took control of the Western Roman capital Ravenna, forcing Nepos to flee to Dalmatia. 31 October: Orestes declared his young son Romulus Augustulus augustus of the Western Roman Empire. 476: August