When did the Roman Empire technically end?
The Western Empire was, in the final a analysis, only special, administrative division of the only and united Roman Empire - that is the state founded in 753 BC (no better date available, so let's stick to it) which lasted (legally, mark you) until... yes, until when?
- In 476, when Romulus Augustulus abdicated from the Roman throne
- In 480, when Julius Nepos, last western emperor, died
- During the Conquests of Justinian, when the Roman Senate, symbol of the sovereignty of the Roman nation, was dissolved
- In the middle ages, when the Byzantine Senate disappeared
- In 1453, when Constantinople was conquered by the Ottomans and the Byzantine Empire disolved
- In 1464, when the last Byzantine holdout, Monemvasia, became a Venetian protectorate
- In 1540, when this protectorate was conquered by the Ottomans
- In 1806, when the Holy Roman Empire ended
- In 1917, when the Russian Emperor, ruler of the Third Rome, was overthrown by the February Revolution
- In 1922, when Mustafa Kemal abolished the Ottoman monarchy