Emperor Zeno closes the School of Edessa…

The remaining Rugi follow Theodoric for revenge against Odacer.

The Gepids try to halt the Ostrogothic advance, but Theodoric defeats them at the Pannonian city of Sirmium and continues on to cross the Julian Alps.

Theodoric, having led Ostrogothic soldiers across the Julian Alps, confronts and defeats Odoacer's forces in 489 at the battles of Isonzo and …

…Verona, arriving in Italy with his people, who may number one hundred thousand persons, in late August 489.

The Northern Wei dynasty constructs the first Temple of Confucius in Northern China outside the ancestral temple of Qufu.

The Ostrogoths capture the cities of Milan and …

…Pavia.

The majority of Odoacer's army, including his magister militum Tufa, surrenders to Theodoric.

Theodoric, an Arian Christian, issues an edict in 489 safeguarding the Jews of Italy and ensuring their right to determine civil disputes and freedom of worship.

Theodoric had captured almost the entire peninsula, including Pavia and Milan, by August 489, forcing Odoacer to take refuge in his heavily fortified capital, Ravenna.

Reinforced from the south, Odacer routs the besieging Ostrogoths near Faenza; …

…the invaders, pursued by Odoacer's forces, fall back to Pavia, where he constructs a fortified camp, which is blockaded.

The Burgundians under king Gundobad, having crossed the Alps, plunder Liguria, taking many Romans into captivity.

King Alaric II supports Theodoric in his conquest of Italy by dispatching an Visigoth army to raise Odoacer's siege of Pavia.