Romulus Augustus (463 – 525), was a Western Roman Emperor, reigning from the 31 October 475 until his death on the 12th of August 515. His reign on the throne of the Western Roman Empire is generally held to mark the end of ancient Rome and its rebirth, the beginning of the First New Age in Western Europe as well as the time period in which the previously rapidly declining Western Empire not only ceased declining, but quickly began a shockingly quick return to prestige and power, serving as a catalyst for the future of Rome.