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AD 476Placed in a yearEast AsiaPolitics and institutions
The Wei shu basic annals record that on the xinwei day of the sixth lunar month of Chengming 1 (AD 476) the Retired Emperor (太上皇帝) died.
Limits: An official history compiled 551-554 by Wei Shou under the Northern Qi from Northern Wei records; the English is an AI working translation. The same passage records the change of reign title on the following (renshen) day, so the era name Chengming is applied here retrospectively; the annals give no cause of death.
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AD 476Placed in a yearEast AsiaPolitics and institutions
The Wei shu basic annals record that in the sixth lunar month of Chengming 1 (AD 476), after entries for the wuyin day, the Empress Dowager was honoured as Grand Empress Dowager (太皇太后) and attended court and issued decrees in her own name (臨朝稱制).
Limits: An official history compiled 551-554 by Wei Shou under the Northern Qi from Northern Wei records; the English is an AI working translation. The passage does not name the Empress Dowager, and its day is given only by the preceding wuyin entry.
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AD 476Placed in a yearEuropePolitics and institutions
The Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes records under the consulship of Basiliscus and Armatus (OCR 'ARMATL') (AD 476) that Odoacer, whom it calls king of the Goths, obtained Rome, killed Orestes and condemned Augustulus, son of Orestes, to exile in the castle of Lucullanum in Campania, and states that the western empire of the Roman people, which Octavian Augustus had begun to hold in the 709th year from the founding of the city, perished with this Augustulus, the kings of the Goths thereafter holding Rome.
Limits: A Latin chronicle written at Constantinople c. 518-534, used through Mommsen's 1894 edition (MGH AA 11) as Internet Archive OCR text (page images not checked); the English is an AI working translation. The designation 'king of the Goths' and the year-reckonings are Marcellinus's own; manuscript S reads 'octauo' (708th) for 'nono', the OCR 'septiugentesimo' is read as septingentesimo, and the span omits the merged margin note '/uii. 47';.' (Mommsen's reference to the Italian annals, Ital. 476). Mommsen's foot note gives '476 = Iordanes R. 342' and '476, 2 = Beda', which depend on Marcellinus (dependence, not confirmation).
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