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| 493, Feb. 27 |
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| After a three-year siege of Ravenna, Odovacar surrendered. He was soon after murdered by Theodoric. Italy was united under Theodoric the Great (b. c. 455) as the kingdom of the Ostrogoths. | 1 |
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| 491–518 |
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| ANASTASIUS I (b. 431), emperor of the east, married Zeno's widow and removed the Isaurians from power, thus causing a serious revolt in Isauria (suppressed only in 497). The inroads of the Slavic Getae forced him to protect Constantinople by a wall. | 2 |
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| 502–506 |
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| The emperor waged a long war with the Persians. | 3 |
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| 514–518 |
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| Anastasius fought the pretender Vitalian, commander of the Bulgarian foederati. The emperor died on July 1, 518. | 4 |
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| 518–527 |
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| JUSTINUS I (b. 450?), a humble Illyrian who had risen to be commander of the imperial bodyguard, took as his colleague his able nephew Justinian (527) and died the same year. | 5 |
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| 527–565 |
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| JUSTINIAN. (For his reign see Byzantine Empire, (See 527–65).) | 6 |
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