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Years: 480Events Odoacer defeats an attempt by Julius Nepos to recapture Italy, and has Julius killed; Odoacer also captured Dalmatia. Narasimhagupta Baladitya succeeds his father Skandagupta as ruler of the Gupta Empire Births Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, C 481Events Clovis I becomes king of the Franks upon the death of Childeric I (or 482) Baekje, Silla, and Daegaya form an alliance against Goguryeo. Births Deaths Theodoric Starbo, Ostrogothic chieftain 481. 482Events Qi Gao Di, ruler of the Chinese Qi Dynasty Byzantine emperor Zeno I issues the Henotikon an attempt to reconcile the differences between the supporters of Orthodoxy and Monophysitism. Births Deaths January 8 Saint Severinus, monk 482. 483Events March 13 Pope Felix III succeeds Pope Simplicius The general Illus and Verina, mother-in-law of Byzantine emperor Zeno I, attempt to overthrow Zeno and place a general named Leontius on the throne. Births May 11 Petrus Sabbatius, the later Emperor 484Events December 28 Alaric II succeeds Euric as king of the Visigoths. Gunthamund becomes king of the Vandals. Pope Felix III excommunicates Peter Mongus, patriarch of Alexandria, and Acacius, patriarch of Constantinople, causing a schism between eastern a 485Events Peter the Fuller is excommunicated by a synod in Rome. Aelle of Sussex fights the Welsh at the stream of Mearcread. Births Deaths 485. 486Events Roman rule in Gaul ends with the defeat at Soissons of the Roman governor Syagrius by the Franks under Clovis I. The land between the Loire and the Somme becomes a part of the Frankish realm. This event is often considered the genesis of the French 487Events Births Deaths April 17 Proclus, Neoplatonic philosopher Syagrius, "King of the Romans" in Soissons See also Intel 80487 487. 488 489 490

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