Isaurian occupation of the imperial office ends…

Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, engaging Theodoric the Great in Ad Pinetam.

Both sides suffer heavy losses, but in the end Theodoric repulses the attack, forcing Odoacer back into Ravenna.

Aelle of Sussex besieges and conquers the fortified town Anderitum in southern Britain.

He massacres the population, apparently sub-Roman Brythons (this according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle).

Anastasius’ removal of Zeno’s Isaurian clansmen from their powerful positions as imperial officials, coupled with the expulsion of Isaurian troops from Constantinople, spurs the bellicose Isaurians of the south central Anatolian highlands to revolt and invade western Anatolia in 492.

Anastasius declare war on the Isaurian supporters of Longinus, the brother of Zeno who was passed over in his succession in favor of Anastasius, and sends a mostly Gothic army against them.

The rebels are defeated by the Eastern Roman army under John the Scythian and John the Hunchback in the Battle of Cotyaeum (subordinate commanders including the future Justin I).

Pope Felix III dies on January 3, 492; Gelasius succeeds him.

Gelasius' election on March 1, 492, is a gesture for continuity: the new pope, having inherited Felix's struggles with Eastern Roman Emperor Anastasius I and the patriarch of Constantinople, exacerbates them by insisting on the removal of the name of the late Acacius, patriarch of Constantinople, from the diptychs, in spite of every ecumenical gesture by the current, otherwise quite orthodox patriarch Euphemius.

Theodoric the Great conquers Rimini and brings his Ostrogoth fleet to blockade the harbors six miles from the capital of Ravenna.

Important provisions, food and supplies, are cut off and the inhabitants are starved to death.

Emperor Xiaowen begins adopting a sinicization policy as well as various reforms.

He marries Feng Qing, who becomes empress of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The Book of Song, a historical text of the Liu Song Dynasty of the Southern Dynasties of China, covers history from 420 to 479, and is one of the Twenty-four Histories, a traditional collection of historical records.

It is written in 492–493 by Shen Yue from the Southern Qi dynasty.

The work contains one hundred volumes at the time that it is written, but some volumes will already be missing by the time of the Song Dynasty.

Later editors will reconstruct those volumes by taking material from the History of the Southern Dynasties, plus a few works such as the Historiette of Gao by Gao Jun, though many of those volumes will no longer be in their original condition.

The Lombards, migrating south from the upper Elbe, settle the abandoned Rugian territory in 493.

The movement of the Slavs from their original homeland north of the Carpathians to other parts of East Central Europe is apparently linked in large part to the invasion between the fifth and sixth centuries of nomadic peoples from the east.

The Huns, Alans, and Kutrigur Bulgars in turn subject certain Slavic tribes and often take them along on raids against the Eastern Roman Empire.

The Kutrigur Bulgars probably originated as a Turkic tribe of Central Asia and arrived in the European steppe west of the Volga River with the Huns about 370; retreating with the Huns, they resettled about 460 in an arc of country north and east of the Sea of Azov.

Hired by the East Romans in 480 to fight against the Ostrogoths, the Bulgars subsequently have attracted by the wealth of the empire.

From 493, the Bulgars continually attack the western Danubian provinces of the Empire.

Meanwhile, small Slavic groups have in the fifth century begun settling outlying regions in the region of what is today Bulgaria.

The Slavs, characteristically sedentary farming and livestock-raising tribes, speak an Indo-European language and organize themselves into clans ruled by a council of family chiefs, holding in common all land and significant wealth.

The Roman general Diogenianus besieges Claudiopolis, an ancient city of Cappadocia, but his army is blocked in the mountain passes by the Isaurians.

John the Hunchback (John Gibbo) comes to his aid and wins an overwhelming victory against the rebels in 493 and drives the rebels back to Isauria, where, despite numerical inferiority, they continue to battle imperial forces.