Average climate in Aurora, Maine. Based on data reported by over 4,000 weather stations. Earthquake activity: Aurora-area historical earthquake activity is slightly below Maine state average. It is 93% smaller than the overall U.S. average.
In his masterwork, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, historian Edward Gibbon names the date AD 476 as the year Rome ceased to exist. That date has been generally accepted because that's when the Germanic king of the Torcilingi Odoacer deposed the last Roman emperor to rule the western part of the Roman Empire.
The causes and mechanisms of the decline of the Roman Empire are a historical theme that was introduced by historian Edward Gibbon in his 1776 book The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.his article is about the historiography of the decline of the Roman Empire. For a description of events, see Fall of the Western Roman Empire. For the historical era in general, see Late Antiquity. For the book by Edward Gibbon, see The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.