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The Roman Empire was going through tempestuous times, and was divided into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium (until 1453). Several signal events from the 4th to 6th centuries mark the period of transition during which the Roman Empire’s Greek East and Latin West divided.XXXX
401 Leo I the Thracian* Eastern Roman emperor (457-474) – Thracia (474/73)
401-0410 Theodosius II* Eastern Roman emperor (402-450)/sole ruler since 408 – (450/49)
410
419-0702 Valentinian III* Caesar (423-425)/Western Roman emperor (425-455) – Ravenna, Italia (455/35)
420
425 Zeno* Eastern Roman emperor (474-475) + (476-491) – Zenopolis (491/66)
430
430 Julius Nepos* along with Julius Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman emperor – (480/50)
440
448 Cyriacus the Anchorite* hermit/saint – Corinth, Greece (555/107)
450
453 Attila the Hun is found dead in bed
454 Theoderic the Great* king of the Ostrogoths (475-526) – Pannonia, Roman Empire (526/c.75)
In the year 455, the Western Roman emperor Valentinian III is assassinated (Mar 16)
460
460 c Romulus Augustulus* Roman emperor (475-476)/along with Julius Nepos, the last Western Roman emperor – Date of death unknown.
467 Leo II – Eastern Roman emperor (473-474)/grandson of Leo I – (474/7)
470 Finnian of Clonard* Irish Monastic saint – Kingdom of Leinster (549/)
470 c Dionysius Exiguus* monk/inventor of the Anno Domini era (525) – Scythia Minor, Eastern Roman Empire (544/c73)
476 Aryabhata* mathematician/astronomer/ discoverer of zero – Kusumapura, India(550)
478 Narses* Romanized Armenian general serving under the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I – (566 or 573), birth year could be 480
479 Ruan Xiaoxu* bibliography writer during North Southern and Northern Dynasties China (536/57)
480-0425 Nominal end of the Western Roman Empire.
482 Justinian I* Byzantine Emperor/possibly the last Roman emperor to have Latin as his mother tongue – Tauresium, Dardania, Byzantine Empire (565/83)
484 c Saint Brendan of Clonfert* priest/abbot/navigator – Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland (c.577)
485 c Cassiodorus* Roman statesman/writer – Scylletium, Calabria, Italia (c.585)
487 Sacerdos of Lyon* French saint – France (552)
490 c John Philoponus* philologist/Aristotelian commentator/philosopher – Alexandria, Province of Egypt, Eastern Roman Empire (c.570)
491 John Malalas* Greek chronicler from Antioch – Greece (578)
493 c Cerbonius* a bishop of Populonia during the Barbarian invasions – North Africa (575)
494 c Gildas* 6th-century British monk/historian – (570)
495 c Chlodomer* king of the Franks – (524)
496 c Childebert I* king of the Franks – (558)
498-xxxx Kevin of Glendalough* hermit/founder of Glendalough Monastery/Irish saint – White Mountain, Ireland (618(120)
499 Ingund* Queen of the Franks/daughter of King Baderic of Thuringia – Thuringia (5xx)
Updated 7.10.2019
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