<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_Augustulus" id="mwEQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Romulus Augustulus">Romulus Augustulus</a> is deposed when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odoacer" id="mwEg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Odoacer">Odoacer</a> proclaims himself "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Italy" id="mwEw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="King of Italy">King of Italy</a>", thus <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empire" id="mwFA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fall of the Western Roman Empire">ending the Western Roman Empire</a>.