- 467 -- Visgouth
Odovacar deposes Romulus, the last Roman emporer
- 470~480 -- Birth of
Boethius (probably in Rome), also births of Cassiodorus and St. Benedict
- 484 -- Acacian
Schism, rupture between Eastern and Western Empires
- 485 -- Death of
Proclus
- 488 -- Boethius
Orphaned, becomes ward of Senator Symmachus
- 493 -- Ostrogoth
Theodoric deposes Odovocar and rules Italy
- 500 -- King
Theodoric visits Rome, hires Boethius
- 503 -- Boethius
writes De institutione arithmetica
- 510 -- Boethius
becomes sole Consol of Rome
- 512 -- Boethius
writes Contra Eutychen et Nestorium
- 521 -- Boethius
writes De Trinitate and Utrum Pater
- 522 -- Boethius' two
sons become joint Consols of Rome
- 524~525--
Imprisionment, writing of De consolation philosophiae, and execution in
Pavia, Italy
- 526 -- Death of
Theodoric
