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Julius Nepos forces Roman usurper Glycerius to abdicate the throne and proclaims himself Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
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Formally the last Western Roman emperor from 474 to 480
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Glycerius
Western Roman emperor from 473 to 474
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Western half of the Roman Empire
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