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== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Roman Empire ====
* [[January 9]] &ndash; Emperor [[Zeno (emperor)|Zeno]] abdicates under pressure, as his wife's uncle [[Basiliscus]] stages a [[coup d'état]] at [[Constantinople]], with support from Zeno's trusted adviser and fellow Isaurian [[Illus]]. Basiliscus usurps the [[throne]] and is proclaimed new emperor (''[[Augustus (honorific)|Augustus]]'') of the [[Eastern Roman Empire]]. He begins a 20-month reign; Zeno and his supporters flee to [[Isauria]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h5_tSnygvbIC&q=emperor+zeno+475&pg=PA178|title=A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East [6 volumes]: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East|last=Tucker|first=Spencer C.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2010|isbn=9781851096725|volume=1|location=Santa Babara, CA, Denver, CO, Oxford, UK|pages=178|language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 9]] &ndash; Basiliscus issues a circular letter (''Enkyklikon'') to the [[bishop]]s of his empire, promoting the [[Miaphysitism|Miaphysite]] [[christological]] position. These religious views will make him highly unpopular.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NSoAgAAQBAJ&q=Miaphysitism+Basilicus&pg=PA37|title=The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: AD 395-700|last=Cameron|first=Averil|publisher=Routledge|year=2012|isbn=9781136673061|edition=Second|series=Routledge History of the Ancient World|location=London & New York|pages=37|language=en|orig-year=1993}}</ref>
* Summer &ndash; Emperor [[Julius Nepos]] grants the [[Visigoths|Visigoth]] King [[Euric]] legal tenure of his conquests, which include [[Provence]] (region of [[Gaul]]), in exchange for full independence.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JcmwuoTsKO0C&q=Julius+Nepos+Euric&pg=PA170|title=The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 1, C.500-c.700|last1=McKitterick|first1=Rosamond|last2=Fouracre|first2=Paul|last3=Reuter|first3=Timothy|last4=Abulafia|first4=David|last5=Luscombe|first5=David Edward|last6=Allmand|first6=C. T.|last7=Riley-Smith|first7=Jonathan|last8=Jones|first8=Michael|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2005|isbn=9780521362917|location=Cambridge|pages=170|language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Magister militum|''Magister Militum'']] [[Orestes (father of Romulus Augustulus)|Orestes]] takes control of the government in [[Ravenna]], and forces Julius Nepos to flee to [[Dalmatia]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/amanualancienth00sabagoog|quote=orestes 475.|title=A Manual of Ancient History: Particularly with Regard to the Constitutions, the Commerce, and the Colonies, of the States of Antiquity|last=Heeren|first=Arnold Hermann Ludwig|publisher=D.A. Talboys|year=1833|edition=Second|location=Oxford|pages=[https://archive.org/details/amanualancienth00sabagoog/page/n498 474]|language=en|orig-year=1799}}</ref>
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Romulus Augustulus|Romulus Augustus]] is installed as emperor by his father Orestes, who becomes [[regent]] in effect of the [[Western Roman Empire]]. Augustus will ultimately rule for 10 months, as the last Western Emperor.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sdCjnwoQLR0C&q=Romulus+Augustulus+475&pg=PA269|title=Catalogue of Late Roman Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection: From Arcadius and Honorius to the Accession of Anastasius|last1=Oaks|first1=Dumbarton|last2=Collection|first2=Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and|last3=Grierson|first3=Philip|last4=Collection|first4=Whittemore|last5=Mays|first5=Melinda|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection|year=1992|isbn=9780884021933|location=Washington, D.C.|pages=269|language=en}}</ref>

==== Asia ====
* [[Bodhidharma]], Buddhist monk, travels to China and, begins teaching the [[Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra]] (approximate date).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Greene|first=Eric|date=March 2008|title=Another Look at Early Chan: Daoxuan, Bodhidharma, and the Three Levels Movement|url=https://brill.com/view/journals/tpao/94/1/article-p49_1.xml|journal=T'oung Pao|language=en|volume=94|issue=1|pages=49–114|doi=10.1163/008254308X367022|issn=0082-5433|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* [[Gongju]] becomes the capital of [[Baekje]], and is threatened by [[Goguryeo]], who conquers the [[Han River (Korea)|Han River]] valley (Korea).<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3050594|title=A journey through the glorious Baekje Dynasty : Visiting sites in Gongju, Buyeo and Iksan reveals the beauty of the kingdom|last=Yoon|first=So-Yeon|date=14 July 2018|work=Korea JoongAng Daily|access-date=4 February 2019}}</ref>
* [[Munju of Baekje|Munju]] becomes king of Baekje.<ref>{{cite web |title=List of Rulers of Korea |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/koru/hd_koru.htm |website=www.metmuseum.org |access-date=20 April 2019}}</ref>

====Byzantine Empire====
*Great fire in [[Constantinople]] with loss of [[Palace of Lausus]] and - along with it - the famous [[Zeus from Olympia]].

=== By topic ===
==== Art ====
* A ''[[Bodhisattva]]'' (detail of a wall painting in the [[Ajanta Caves]]) in [[Maharashtra]] (India) of the [[Gupta Empire|Gupta period]]) is made (approximate date).<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Huntington|first1=John C.|last2=Chandrasekhar|first2=Chaya|date=2000|title=The Dharmacakramudrā Variant at Ajanta: An Iconological Study|journal=Chāchājī: Professor Walter M. Spink Felicitation Volume|volume=30|issue=1|pages=33–39|jstor=4629567}}</ref>

==== Religion ====
* The compilation of the [[talmud|Babylonian Talmud]], the source of the majority of Jewish [[Halakha]], is completed.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Pomeranz|first=Yoni|date=May 2016|title=Ordinary Jews in the Babylonian Talmud: Rabbinic Representations and Historical Interpretation|url=https://www.academia.edu/24432463|language=en}}</ref>
* The [[Church of Saint Simeon Stylites]] is consecrated in [[Syria]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2016/05/byzantine-church-of-saint-symeon.html|title=Byzantine Church Of Saint Symeon Stylites In Syria Damaged By Missile Attack|last=Steiner|first=Shannon|date=17 May 2016|work=Archaeology News Network|access-date=4 February 2019|archive-date=February 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190204122246/https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2016/05/byzantine-church-of-saint-symeon.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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