476 CE - The "Fall of the Roman Empire"
The decline of the Western Roman empire continued even after the collapse of the Hun empire. The Visigoths stopped being federates and instead of became an independent kingdom, expanded across southern Gaul and across all of Hispania. The Vandals began to dominate the Mediterranean Sea. Ostrogoths still appeared large in the Balkans. The fall of the western empire happened in CE 476 when a senior military officer called Odoacer led the largely German troops of the western Roman army against the emperor. The area of western empire, the region of Dalmatia still remained independent, and had an emperor Julius Nepos. This area (shown in red) was eventually absorbed into the Ostrogothic kingdom.