September 4
A quiet gaze into the madness of our past.
In 476, the boy emperor Romulus Augustulus was deposed, quietly ending a millennium of Roman dominance and plunging the Western world into the Middle Ages.
The greatest marble monuments and unyielding legions cannot shield a civilization once the belief that built them begins to rot from within.
476 AD: Germanic chieftain Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustulus in Ravenna, marking the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
626 AD: Li Shimin formally ascended the throne as Emperor Taizong, ushering in the golden age of the Tang Dynasty.
1479 AD: The Catholic Monarchs of Spain and King Afonso V of Portugal signed the Treaty of Alcáçovas.
1774 AD: British explorer Captain James Cook became the first European to sight the South Pacific island of New Caledonia.
1781 AD: A group of 44 Spanish settlers established El Pueblo de la Reina de los Ángeles, the modern city of Los Angeles.
1812 AD: War of 1812: Native American warriors launched a surprise assault on Fort Harrison in Indiana Territory.
1839 AD: Battle of Kowloon: British naval vessels clashed with Qing Chinese war junks, sparking the First Opium War.
1843 AD: Emperor Pedro II of Brazil married Princess Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies in Rio de Janeiro Cathedral.
1870 AD: Following the disaster at Sedan, the French Third Republic was proclaimed in Paris, officially deposing Napoleon III.
1886 AD: Chiricahua Apache leader Geronimo formally surrendered to the US Army in Skeleton Canyon, Arizona.
1888 AD: American inventor George Eastman received a patent for his roll-film box camera and registered the trademark Kodak.
1913 AD: Schoolteacher Ernst August Wagner carried out a mass shooting in Mühlhausen, Germany, killing fourteen people.
Chronos Computation Complete: Archives 476–1913 AD Developing.