As a proxy for his father, Romulus made no decisions and left no monuments, though coins bearing his name were minted in Rome, Milan, Ravenna, and Gaul.

* The 2007 film The Last Legion, and the novel on which it is based, includes a heavily fictionalized account of the reign and subsequent life of Romulus Augustus ; escaping captivity with the aid of a small band of loyal Romans, he escapes to Britain, where he takes a place in what will become Arthurian legend as Uther Pendragon, the father of King Arthur, and a previous wielder of Excalibur ( Here the sword of Julius Caesar ).

* October 31 – Romulus Augustus (" Little Augustus ") is installed as emperor by his father Orestes who becomes magister militum and regent of the Western Roman Empire.

The location of his two temples in Rome — near those of Jupiter ( one on the Capitoline Hill, in the low between the arx and the Capitolium, between the two groves where the asylum founded by Romulus stood, the other on the Tiber Island near that of Iuppiter Iurarius, later also known as temple of Aesculapius )— may be significant in this respect, along with the fact that he is considered the father of Apollo ( perhaps because he was depicted carrying arrows ).

He is the father of the future emperor Romulus Augustulus.

Mars, the father of Romulus, is given permission by Jupiter to bring his son up to Olympus to live with the Olympians.

Unlike her, she had mythological ties to Troy, and thus to the Trojan prince Aeneas, mythological ancestor of Rome's founding father and first patrician Romulus.

He chooses to feature strongly Hersilia, who was deified for her loyalty to her Roman husband, Romulus, as against her Sabine family-a deliberate reference to Mary, lauded by the Whigs for supporting her Protestant husband, William, against her Catholic father, James.

Dürrenmatt took some rather great liberties in describing the historical story-in reality, Romulus Augustulus was just a child who spent only a few months in power and depended heavily upon his father, Orestes.

* Orestes ( father of Romulus Augustulus ), a 5th-century Roman politician.

Born in Dortmund, Germany in 1946 to a Romanian father ( Romulus Gaiţă ) and a German mother ( Christine Anna Dörr ), he arrived in Australia in 1950 at the age of four.

In a later book, After Romulus, a collection of essays, “ he reflects on the writing of the Romulus, My Father, the making of the film, his relationship to the desolate beauty of the central Victorian landscape, the philosophies that underpinned his father ’ s relationship to the world and, most movingly, the presence and absence of his mother and his unassuaged longing for her ”.

Sarah Burnett gave birth out of wedlock to John Romulus Brinkley in the town of Beta, in Jackson County, North Carolina, naming her son after his father, and after Romulus, the mythical twin suckled by wolves.

After death, his status was raised to Divus and his father dedicated him the Temple of Divus Romulus in the Forum.

Glycerius took up residence at Salona, which in 475 saw the arrival of Julius Nepos, who had retreated to Dalmatia in the face of a coup by Magister militum Orestes ; he was still in Salona when, in 476 Orestes ' son, the usurper Romulus Augustus, was deposed by Odoacer, King of the Heruli.

However, Orestes was able to escape to Piacenza, where Odoacer followed and killed him, deposing his son Romulus Augustus.

Following Nepos ' departure, Orestes enthroned his own teenage son as the new Western Emperor, in the same year, with the regnal name Romulus Augustus ; the second element is often used in the diminutive " Augustulus " ( little Augustus ).

Unable to appoint himself as the Western Roman Emperor, Orestes instead appointed his son Romulus Augustus as Romulus was a citizen of Rome.

When Odoacer captured Ravenna, killed Orestes, and deposed Romulus on September 4, 476, he proclaimed himself ruler of Italy and asked the Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno to legalize his position as Patricius of the Roman Empire and Zeno's viceroy in Italy.

Orestes then pronounced his own son, Romulus Augustus, as Emperor.

Orestes proclaims his own son Romulus Augustulus as western emperor.

* 476 – Germanic general Odoacer kills Orestes, forces Romulus Augustus to abdicate and proclaims himself King of Italy.

With the emperor far away, Orestes elevated his son Romulus to the rank of Augustus, so that the last Western Roman emperor is known as Romulus Augustulus meaning " little Augustus " as the emperor was only a 12 year old boy.

In 475, Orestes, a former secretary of Attila, drove Julius Nepos out of Ravenna and proclaimed his own son Romulus Augustus as emperor.

Orestes was killed and Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustus, installed himself as ruler over Italy and sent the Imperial insignia to Constantinople.

In June 474, Julius Nepos became Western Emperor but in the next year the magister militum Orestes revolted and made his son Romulus Augustus emperor.

In 476, after being refused lands in Italy, Orestes ' Germanic mercenaries under the leadership of the chieftain Odoacer captured and executed Orestes and took Ravenna, the Western Roman capital at the time, deposing Romulus Augustus.

Julius Nepos, who had been nominated by the Eastern Emperor Zeno, was deposed by the rebelled magister militum Orestes, who installed his own son Romulus in the imperial throne.

Shortly after, Odoacer, magister militum appointed by Julius, invaded Italy, defeated Orestes, and deposed Romulus Augustus on September 4, 476.

* 476, Revolt of Heruli, Scirii and Turcilingi mercenaries, Battle of Ravenna, Execution of Orestes, Deposition of Western Emperor Romulus Augustulus, Germanic Heruli chieftain Odoacer becomes King of Italy, Fall of the Roman Empire, Roman usurper Basiliscus is killed by un-Roman Byzantine Emperor Zeno, End of the Dominate.

His position as " Shadow Emperor " was in turn held by his nephew Gundobad and Orestes ; Odoacer simply overthrew Orestes's puppet Emperor, Romulus Augustus, in 476 and ruled Italy as nominal subordinate of the Emperor-in-exile, Julius Nepos, who continued to reign in Dalmatia until 480.

This month was originally named Sextilis in Latin, because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman calendar under Romulus in 753 BC, when March was the first month of the year.

The Romans add that about the time Romulus started to build the city, an eclipse of the Sun was observed by Antimachus, the Teian poet, on the 30th day of the lunar month.

Romulus vanished in the 54th year of his life, on the Nones of Quintilis ( July ), on a day when the Sun was darkened.

Dio in his Roman History ( Book I ) confirms this data by telling that Romulus was in his 18th year of age when he had initiated Rome.

Thus, three eclipse calculations may be evidence for the suggestion that Romulus reigned from 746 BC to 709 BC, and Rome was founded during 745 BC.

The Lupercalia festival was partly in honor of Lupa, the she-wolf who suckled the infant orphans, Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, explaining the name of the festival, Lupercalia, or " Wolf Festival.

The last emperor of the west, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed in 476, which has led that year to be traditionally cited as the end of the Western Roman Empire.

Anterus was the son of Romulus, born in Petilia Policastro, Calabria.

Romulus Augustus ( born perhaps around 460 – died after 476, possibly alive around 500 ), is sometimes considered the last Western Roman Emperor ( although by other accounts the last Western Roman Emperor was Julius Nepos ), reigning from 31 October 475 until 4 September 476.

Reigning for only ten months, Romulus was then deposed by the Germanic chieftain Odoacer and sent to live in the Castellum Lucullanum in Campania ; afterwards he disappears from the historical record.

The future emperor was named Romulus after his maternal grandfather, a nobleman from Poetovio in Noricum.

Romulus was compelled to abdicate the throne on 4 September 476.

Thomas Hodgkin, a translator of Cassiodorus ' works, wrote in 1886 that it was " surely possible " the Romulus in the letter was the same person as the last western emperor.

As Romulus was an usurper, Julius Nepos claimed to legally hold the title of emperor when Odoacer took power.

It is said that Romulus himself instituted the augurs and was believed to have been the best augur of all.

After his death at the age of 54, Romulus was deified as the war god Quirinus and served not only as one of the three major gods of Rome but also as the deified likeness of the city of Rome.

After the death of Romulus there was an interregnum for one year, during which ten men chosen from the senate governed Rome as successive interreges.

Numa Pompilius, a Sabine, was eventually chosen by the senate to succeed Romulus, on account of his reputation for justice and piety.

Tullus Hostilius was much like Romulus in his warlike behavior and completely unlike Numa in his lack of respect for the gods.

Rumors circulated in the Federation that the Enterprise's broken hull was displayed on Romulus, to boost the morale of Romulan fleet academy students.

Circa stardate 44995. 3 ( December 28, 2367 ), the Vulcan Ambassador Spock was discovered on Romulus, working with an underground movement for the reunification of the divided races.