Sept 4
476 Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western
Roman Empire, was deposed when the barbarian Odoacer proclaimed himself King of
Italy, and ended the Western Roman Empire.
925 Athelstan, grandson of Alfred
the Great, was crowned King of England. First elected king of Wessex and
Mercia, Athelstan was crowned king of the entire country at Kingston.
1666
(September 2-5) Great Fire of London destroyed the medieval city of London
inside the old Roman city wall. The fire also threatened but spared the
aristocratic district of Westminster, Charles II's Palace of Whitehall;
unfortunately St. Paul's cathedral was destroyed.
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