King Odoacer captured and executed Emperor Orestes at Piacenza.

Emperor Zeno recaptured Constantinople and accepted Emperor Basiliscus's surrender.

King Odoacer conquered the Western Roman capital Ravenna, forced Emperor Romulus to abdicate and declared himself king of Italy.

The Senate sent Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno the imperial regalia of the Western Roman Empire.

Ex-Emperor Nepos was murdered in his residence in Split.

Basiliscus, brother of Emperor Leo the Thracian's widow Verina, was acclaimed Augustus of the Byzantine Empire by the Byzantine Senate.

Emperor Nepos appointed Orestes (father of Romulus Augustulus) Magister Militum and commander-in-chief of the Western Roman military.

Emperor Zeno was forced to flee Constantinople for his homeland Isauria in the face of a popular revolt.

Emperor Orestes took control of the Western Roman capital Ravenna, forcing Emperor Nepos to flee to Dalmatia.

Emperor Orestes declared his young son Romulus Augustulus, Augustus of the Western Roman Empire.

Deceased Emperor Leo the Thracian was succeeded by his grandson Leo II.

Zeno (Emperor) became co-Augustus of the Byzantine Empire with his young son Leo II.

Emperor Leo the Thracian appointed Julius Nepos, his nephew and governor of Dalmatia, ruler of the Western Roman Empire in opposition to Glycerius.

Emperor Nepos deposed Emperor Glycerius.

Emperor Leo II died, possibly after being poisoned by his mother Ariadne (Empress).

The Germanic elements of the army elected the domesticus Glycerius Augustus of the Western Roman Empire.

Patrician Gundobad relinquished his Western Roman titles to succeed his father as king of Burgundy.

General Ricimer's nephew Gundobad succeeded him as Magister Militum and took the title Patrician.

Emperor Maximus's son Olybrius was acclaimed Augustus of the Western Roman Empire.

Emperor Anthemius was killed in flight following general Ricimer's conquest of Rome.

The Vandal Kingdom destroyed a combined Western Roman and Byzantine invasion fleet at Cap Bon.

Emperor Leo the Thracian elevated the 'comes' Anthemius to Caesar with rule over the Western Roman Empire.

Emperor Majorian was killed after torture near the Staffora on general Ricimer's orders.

The Senate elected Libius Severus from among their number as Augustus of the Western Roman Empire.

The Byzantine Augustus Leo I the Thracian appointed Majorian Magister Militum in the west.

The army acclaimed Majorian Augustus of the Western Roman Empire.

Emperor Avitus was forced to flee Rome following a military coup by the general Ricimer and the domesticus Majorian.

The Senate acclaimed Maximus Augustus of the Western Roman Empire.

Emperor Maximus was killed by a mob as he attempted to flee Rome in the face of a Vandal advance.

Emperor Valentinian III was assassinated on orders of the senator Petronius Maximus.

The Vandals entered and began to sack Rome.

The Magister Militum Avitus was pronounced Augustus of the Western Roman Empire at Toulouse by the Visigothic king Theodoric II.

Attila abandoned his invasion of Italy following a meeting at the Mincio with the pope Pope Leo I.

Emperor Theodosius the Younger died in a riding accident.

The Huns under Attila defeated a Byzantine army in a bloody battle near the Vit.

Usurper Joannes was executed in Aquileia.

The Byzantine Augustus Theodosius II The Younger, The Calligrapher named the young Valentinian III, his cousin and Constantius III's son, Caesar with rule over the west.

Emperor Theodosius II the Younger's mother Galla Placidia was appointed regent.

The Western Roman patrician Castinus declared the primicerius Joannes, Augustus.

Emperor Honorius appointed his brother-in-law and Magister militum Constantius III co-ruler of the Western Roman Empire with himself.

Rome was sacked by the Visigoths under their king Alaric I.

A coalition of foreign tribes including the Vandals, Alans and Suebi invaded the Western Roman Empire across the Rhine.

The capital of the Western Roman Empire was moved to Ravenna.

Germanic foederati under the command of the general Odoacer renounced Western Roman authority and declared Odoacer their king.