who was the last roman emperor and what happened to him
Romulus Augustulus Romulus Augustulus (c. AD 460â€“after AD 476; apparently still alive as late as AD 507),[3] formally known as Romulus Augustus, was a Roman emperor and alleged usurper who ruled the Western Roman Empire from 31 October AD 475 until 4 September AD 476. His deposition by Odoacer traditionally marks the end of the Roman Empire in the West, the fall of Ancient Rome, and the beginning of the Middle Ages in Western Europe.
Western Roman Empire The Western Roman Empire existed intermittently in several periods between the 3rd and 5th centuries, after Diocletian's Tetrarchy and the reunifications associated with Constantine the Great and Julian the Apostate (331/2–363). Theodosius I divided the Empire upon his death (in 395) between his two sons. Finally, eighty-five years later in AD 480, Zeno of the Eastern Empire recognized the reality of the Western Empire's reduced domain—effective central control had ceased to exist even in the Italian Peninsula—after the deposition of Romulus Augustus and the subsequent death of Julius Nepos, and therefore abolished the Western court and proclaimed himself the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.