The eastern hemisphere in 475.

[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Western Roman Empire

• 28 August—Flavius Orestes forces western Julius Nepos to flee and declares his son, Romulus Augustus, to be emperor.
• Euric, king of the Visigoths, returns Provence to Rome in exchange for full independence.

[edit] Eastern Roman Empire

• 9 January—Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee from Constantinople.
• 12 January—Basiliscus is acclaimed emperor in Constantinople.
• 9 April—Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysiste christological position.

[edit] Asia

• Bodhidharma travels to China (approximate date).
• Gongju becomes the capital of Baekje, after Baekje loses the Han River valley to Goguryeo.

[edit] By topic

[edit] Art

• A Bodhisattva (detail of a wall painting in Cave I in Ajanta, Maharashtra, India) of the Gupta period is made (approximate date).

[edit] Religion

• The compilation of the Babylonian Talmud, the source of the majority of Jewish Halakha, is completed.

[edit] Births

• Clotilde, Burgundian princess
• Ita, Irish nun

[edit] Deaths

• King Gaero of Baekje, king of the Baekje Kingdom of Korea