{"slug": "odoacer", "label": "Odoacer", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odoacer", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103333", "qid": "Q103333", "description": "5th-century Germanic soldier and monarch of Italy (476–493)", "entries": 12, "years": 11, "span": [431, 493], "span_label": ["431 CE", "493 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 8}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "ravenna", "label": "Ravenna", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "heruli", "label": "Heruli", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "theodoric-the-great", "label": "Theodoric the Great", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "ostrogoths", "label": "Ostrogoths", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "western-roman-empire", "label": "Western Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "dalmatia-roman-province", "label": "Dalmatia (Roman province)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-senate", "label": "Roman Senate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "austria", "label": "Austria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "northern-italy", "label": "Northern Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "germanic-peoples", "label": "Germanic peoples", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 431, "year_label": "431 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Odoacer, first \"barbarian\" king of Italy (d. 493)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311961439#Births", "title": "431", "revid": 1311961439, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 470, "year_label": "470 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Odoacer becomes the leader of the Germanic tribes (Herulic – Scirian foederati) in Northern Italy (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333241735#Europe", "title": "470", "revid": 1333241735, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 476, "year_label": "476 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic/Scirian foederati), visits the imperial palace at Ravenna. He petitions Orestes (magister militum) to reward his mercenaries for their services and their support of his rebellion a year earlier, by making good on his promise to grant them lands to settle permanently in Italy. Orestes refuses this proposal and Odoacer leads his tribesmen in a revolt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355222972#Roman_Empire", "title": "476", "revid": 1355222972, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 479, "year_label": "479 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Julius Nepos, former emperor of the Western Roman Empire, plans military campaigns in Dalmatia against Odoacer, hoping to regain control of Italy himself.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360119770#Europe", "title": "479", "revid": 1360119770, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 480, "year_label": "480 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 9", "text": "December 9 – Odoacer occupies Dalmatia and prosecutes Nepos's killers. He later establishes his political power with the co-operation of the Roman Senate.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739995#Balkans", "title": "480", "revid": 1364739995, "section": "Events › By place › Balkans"}}, {"year": 487, "year_label": "487 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Odoacer leads an army to victory against the Rugians in Noricum (modern Austria).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340789359#Europe", "title": "487", "revid": 1340789359, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 488, "year_label": "488 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Zeno orders Theodoric the Great to overthrow his rival Odoacer, who has established himself as king of Italy (see 476). He marches with an Ostrogoth army to the West.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340789358#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "488", "revid": 1340789358, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 489, "year_label": "489 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 28", "text": "August 28 – After crossing the Julian Alps, the Ostrogoths defeat the overwhelming forces of Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo (near Roman Aquileia or modern Soča) and enter Italy. This date is subsequently used by Theodoric to establish a 30-year statute of limitations (tricennium) ending on 28 August 519, after which any unlawful seizure of land during this period can no longer be contested.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364747647#Europe", "title": "489", "revid": 1364747647, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 490, "year_label": "490 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Odoacer receives reinforcements from the south and leaves Ravenna. He defeats the Ostrogoths near Faenza.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364755224#Europe", "title": "490", "revid": 1364755224, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 491, "year_label": "491 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 9", "text": "July 9 – Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, engaging Theodoric the Great in Ad Pinetam. Both sides suffer heavy losses, but in the end Theodoric repulses the attack, forcing Odoacer back into Ravenna.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368214657#Europe", "title": "491", "revid": 1368214657, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 493, "year_label": "493 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 25", "text": "February 25 – Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege, and agrees to a mediated peace with Theodoric the Great, who steadily consolidates his rule and provides security for the local population. His achievement is to manage the transformation of Italy from being the center of a fractured Roman Empire to a successful and independent Ostrogothic Kingdom.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340790263#Europe", "title": "493", "revid": 1340790263, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 493, "year_label": "493 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 15", "text": "March 15 – Odoacer, first \"barbarian\" king of Italy (b. 433)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340790263#Deaths", "title": "493", "revid": 1340790263, "section": "Deaths"}}]}