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==== 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>