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General

Population: Between 190 and 230 million*

• Births: Aryabhata the Hindu astronomer and mathematician
• Chronology: End of Roman era and start of early Middle Ages
• Deaths: Orestes (executed by Odoacer)

Africa

• North: Gaiseric King of Vandals sells Sicily to Theodoric king of Visigoths

Asia

• China: Cave temples at Yun-Kang in N China with figures of Buddha

Europe

• General: Official end of West Roman Empire when Romulus Augustus deposed by Goths under Odoacer (Odovacar)
  End of Wars of Western Roman Empire killing 200,000
• German States: Germanic invader Odoacer expels Romulus Augustus, last Western emperor of Rome, and takes control of the city
  German king Odoacer executes Orestes
• Greece: Platonic Academy of Athens founded by Proclus
• Italian States: Gaiseric King of Vandals sells Sicily to Theodoric king of Visigoths
  Odoacer (see German) declares himself king of Italy