Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman emperor, a conventional end of antiquity in Europe.
Date given in the Julian calendar.
Clovis I, unifier of the Franks, converts to Catholic Christianity; traditionally dated to around 496 at Reims.
A Roman and Visigothic coalition under Aetius halts the invasion of Gaul by Attila and the Huns.
Emperor Justinian I has Roman law codified as the Corpus Juris Civilis, the foundation of many modern civil-law systems.
The Hagia Sophia, rebuilt by Justinian I in Constantinople, is consecrated, crowned by a dome unprecedented in its time.
The first recorded pandemic of bubonic plague sweeps the Mediterranean, devastating the Byzantine Empire and killing vast numbers.
Visigoths under Alaric I enter and sack Rome, the first time in about 800 years the city had fallen to a foreign enemy.