Unrest among the German tribesmen flares up…

Chinese chronicles record a memorial sent by the "King of Japan" (possibly the legendary Yūryaku, conventionally considered to have reigned from 456–479), who describes himself as "Supreme Director of Military Affairs in Japan and Korea" to the Court of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The Tuoba emperor responds by confirming the Japanese dynasty in those titles.

This is the earliest verifiable date in Japanese history.

Verina, mother-in-law of emperor Zeno, attempts to kill Isaurian general Illus for turning against Basiliscus, her brother.

A major revolt is led by her son-in-law Marcian and the Ostrogoth warlord Theodoric Strabo.

The Visigoths acquire Narbonensis by 478.

Xiao takes the throne himself and declares himself Emperor of Qi in 479, ending Liu Song.

The ex-emperor Shun and his clan are soon put to the sword.

Ariadne comes into conflict with her husband in 479 over the fate of her mother.

Verina had attempted to assassinate Illus and had become his prisoner.

She had supported the revolt of her other son-on-law Marcian even during her captivity.

Ariadne endeavors to obtain her release, first from Zeno, and then from Illus, to whom the emperor refers her.

Illus not only refuses her request, but charges her with wishing to place another person on her husband's throne.

This irritates her; and she, like her mother, attempts to assassinate Illus.

Jordanes ascribes her hatred to another cause: he says that Illus had infused jealous suspicions into Zeno's mind which had led Zeno to attempt her life, and that her knowledge of these things stimulated her to revenge.

The assassin whom she has employed fails to kill Illus, but cuts off his ear in the attempt.

The assassin is taken, and Zeno, who appears to have been privy to the affair, is unable to prevent his execution.

The affair does not seem to have had long-term effects in their marriage.

She will remain married to Zeno to his death on April 9, 491.

Illus again proves his loyalty to Zeno by quashing the revolt in 479.

Julius Nepos, former emperor of the Western Roman Empire, plots military actions in Dalmatia against Odoacer, hoping to regain control of Italy himself.

Ambrosius Aurelianus, war leader of the Romano-British, is proclaimed king of the Britons according to Historia Regum Britanniae.

He rules probably in the south of Britain and continues the war against the Anglo-Saxons.

The origin of the early Bulgars (or "Proto-Bulgars") is still unclear.

Their homeland is believed to be situated in Kazakhstan and the North Caucasian steppes.

Interaction with the Hunnic tribes, causing the migration, may have occurred there, but the Pontic–Caspian steppe seems a more likely location.

The first clear mention and evidence of the Bulgars is in the 480s, when they serve as the allies of the Byzantine Emperor Zeno (474–491) against the Ostrogoths.

According D. Dimitrov, the fifth century History of Armenia by Movses Khorenatsi speaks about two migrations of the Bulgars, from Caucasia to Armenia.

The first migration is mentioned in the association with the campaign of Armenian ruler Valarshak (probably Varazdat) to the lands "named Basen by the ancients... and which were afterwards populated by immigrants of the vh' ndur Bulgar Vund, after whose name they (the lands) were named Vanand".

The second migration took place during the time of the ruler Arshak III, when "great disturbances occurred in the range of the great Caucasus mountain, in the land of the Bulgars, many of whom migrated and came to our lands and settled south of Kokh".

Both migrations are dated to the second half of the fourth century.

The "disturbances" that caused them are believed to be the expansion of the Huns in the East-European steppes.

Dimitrov recorded that the toponyms of the Bolha and Vorotan rivers, tributaries of the Aras river, are known as Bolgaru-chaj and Vanand-chaj, and could confirm the Bulgar settlement of Armenia.

The Akatziroi and other tribes that had been part of the Hunnic union were attacked around 463, tby the Šarağurs, one of the first Oğuric Turkic tribes that entered the Ponto-Caspian steppes as the result of migrations set off in Inner Asia.

According to Priscus, in 463 the representatives of Šarağur, Oğur and Onoğur came to the Emperor in Constantinople, and explained they had been driven out of their homeland by the Sabirs, who had been attacked by the Avars.

This tangle of events indicates that the Oğuric tribes are related to the Dingling and Tiele people.

It seems that Kutrigurs and Unigurs arrived with the initial waves of Oğuric peoples entering the Pontic steppes.

The Bulgars were not mentioned in 463.

The eighth-century account by Paul the Deacon in his History of the Lombards says that at the beginning of the fifth century in the northwestern slopes of the Carpathians the Vulgares killed the Lombards’ king Agelmund.

Scholars attribute this account to the Huns; Avars or some Bulgar groups were probably carried away by the Huns to the Central Europe.

When the army of Ostrogoth chieftain Theodoric Strabo grows to thirty-thousand-men strong, it is felt as a menace to Emperor Zeno, who somehow manages to persuade the Bulgars to attack the Thracian Goths.

The Bulgars are in 480/481 defeated, however, by Strabo.

Peroz is said to have favored Nestorianism and persecuted Chalcedonians.

Historians of the period record the occurrence of a seven-year famine that devastated the crops and ruined the country.

Sources say that the wells became dry and that there was not a trickle of water either in the Tigris or the Euphrates.

Eventually the crops failed and thousands perished.

Peroz I showed firm character in the face of such adversity and great wisdom in dealing with the catastrophe.

As a result of his wisdom and benevolence, Persia has gradually recovered from the famine.