Practice question · Numerical answer
In which year was Romulus Augustulus deposed, the date conventionally given for the fall of the western Roman Empire?
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- It falls between the Vandal capture of Carthage and Clovis’s accession.
- Four hundred and seventy-six.
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476
Why
476. Worth holding lightly: the date was singled out much later, largely because it is tidy. Nothing about the year was treated as epochal at the time, and Julius Nepos was still claiming the western title in Dalmatia four years afterwards.
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