What year was the fall of the roman empire?
Officially, the Western Roman Empire fell in 476 A.D. — September 4 — when the last Western Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustus, was deposed by Odoacer, the first barbarian king of Italy. The western Empire, though, was in decline long before that, especially since the city of Rome itself was sacked in 410. But this general decline during the 5th century, and especially after 476 A.D., ushered in the Dark Ages in western Europe. The Eastern Empire continued until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 — an event that, interestingly enough, infused the West with new knowledge, bringing western Europe out of the Dark and Middle Ages into the Renaissance and Reformation era. See also: http://en.wikipedia.
