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.
â¢Rome technically had an âempireâ under the. Roman Republic. âBut the term âRoman Empireâ refers to the time. period, beginning with Augustus, when Rome was. ruled by emperors. Octavian Becomes Augustus. â¢Octavian was sole ruler of Rome after his forces. defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium. â¢The Senate gave him the name âAugustus,â meaning.