490

By place

Europe

• Spring - Odoacer receives reinforcements from the south and leaves Ravenna. He defeats the Ostrogoths near Faenza.
• King Theodoric the Great retreats to Ticinum, where he constructs a fortified camp, which is blockaded.
• Summer - The Burgundians, under King Gundobad, cross the Alps and plunder Liguria. Many Romans are taken into captivity.
• King Alaric II supports Theodoric in his conquest of Italy, by dispatching a Visigoth army to raise Odoacer's siege of Pavia.
• August 11 - Battle of Adda: Theodoric and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer, on the Adda River, near Milan.
• Theodoric and his Ostrogoths lay siege to Ravenna. The cities of Cesena and Rimini retain their allegiance to Odoacer.

  Asia

• Empress Feng of the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty dies. She is buried with magnificent honors, in the Wenming Tomb.

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Religion

• Euphemius becomes patriarch of Constantinople.