Amid the constant military campaigns, there was also the “Plague of Justinian,” one of history’s worst pandemics, that ...

I n September of 476 AD, the barbarian commander Odoacer forced the teenaged Western Roman emperor Romulus Augustus to resign his office. The Constantinopolitan chronicler Marcellinus Comes would ...

On this day in A.D. 476, Romulus Augustulus was deposed by the "barbarian king" Odoacer, and the Western Roman Empire fell after nearly 500 years, heralding the start of the Middle Ages.

On that same day, Romulus Augustulus, the last emperor in the West, was deposed by the barbarian warlord Odoacer, marking what historians now conventionally identify as the fall of the Roman Empire.