Conquest of Italy by Theoderic the Great
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Was a military campaing by Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great against Odoacer's Kingdom of Italy.
Chronology
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August 489: Odoacer was a Germanic chieftain who deposed the last Roman emperor in the West. The Kingdom of the Ostrogoths was ruled by Theodoric the Great, who defeated Odoacer near Aquileia in 489, leading to the territory falling under Ostrogothic control.
September 489: After being defeated by Theodoric the Great, Odoacer, retreated to the Adige River near Verona.
September 489: Battle of Verona.
November 489: Knowing the poor siege techniques of the Goths, Odoacer then decided to barricade himself in Ravenna, but Theodoric surprised him by occupying Milan and Pavia which opened the gates to him to avoid looting.
November 489: Burgundian king Gundobald decided to take advantage of the divisions in Italy to carry out raids in Liguria.
December 489: The Burgundians left Ligurai after a raid.
January 490: In 489 the Ostrogoths crossed the Alps and found themselves in Italy.
January 490: Odoacer's general, Tufa, pretended to defect but then had the Goths massacred. Odoacer's troops then marched towards Milan where Theodoric ordered the troops to withdraw. Milan was then barbarously sacked.
January 490: Theodoric was besieged in Pavia by Odoacer.
January 490: Odoacer made two serious political errors: the first was to sack Milan losing the favor of the population, and the second was to declare himself Augustus and place his son Tela as Caesar. The senatorial class did not take it well, and the whole of Southern Italy rebelled: Cassiodorus and all of Sicily broke away from Odoacer and offered themselves to Theodoric.
August 490: Battle of the Adda River: Ostrogoth king Odoacer was left with only Ravenna, Rimini and Cesena as well as the Adige Valley while the South and Center of Italy had surrendered.
July 492: Rimini, exhausted by hunger, surrendered, to the Ostrogoths.
January 493: In 492, Theodoric had got rid of Tufa.
March 493: Cesena succumbed to hunger.
February 493: Cesena succumbed to hunger.
