480

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	4th century – 5th century – 6th century
Decades:	450s  460s  470s  – 480s –  490s  500s  510s
Years:	477 478 479 – 480 – 481 482 483

Events

By place

Europe

• Odoacer stops an attempt by Julius Nepos to gain control of Italy again, and has Julius killed.
• Odoacer takes control of Dalmatia.
• Ireland: The Diocese of Connor is put up.

Asia

• Narasimhagupta Baladitya follows his father Skandagupta as king of the Gupta Empire.

Births

• Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, a Christian philosopher, was born.
• Damascius, a Neoplatonist philosopher, was born.
• Gelimer, the last king of the Vandals, was born.
• Benedict of Nursia, an early monasticist, was born (approximate date)
• Scholastica, the twin sister of Benedict of Nursia, was born.
• Xiao Zhaowen, the emperor of China's Southern Qi Dynasty (who was often known as the Prince of Hailing), was born.

Deaths

• Julius Nepos, the last legitimate Western Roman Emperor, was killed.
• Skandagupta, the ruler of the Gupta Empire, died.