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Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries: 1st century BC1st century2nd century
Decades: 20s BC  10s BC  0s BC  – 0s –  10s  20s  30s
Years: AD AD ADADAD 10 AD 11 AD
8 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
8 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 8
VIII
Ab urbe condita 761
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -1836 – -1835
Bengali calendar -585
Berber calendar 958
Buddhist calendar 552
Burmese calendar -630
Byzantine calendar 5516 – 5517
Chinese calendar 丁卯年十二月初五日
(2644/2704-12-5)
— to —
戊辰年十一月十五日
(2645/2705-11-15)
Coptic calendar -276 – -275
Ethiopian calendar 0 – 1
Hebrew calendar 3768 – 3769
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 63 – 64
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 3109 – 3110
Holocene calendar 10008
Iranian calendar 614 BP – 613 BP
Islamic calendar 633 BH – 632 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 2341
Thai solar calendar 551

Year 8 (VIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

Europe

Mid-East

Asia

  • Start of Chushi era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
  • In China, Wang Mang crushes a rebellion by Chai I, and on the winter solstice (which has been dated January 10 of the following year) officially assumes the title emperor, establishing the short-lived Xin Dynasty.[1]

By topic

Arts

  • After completing Metamorphoses, Ovid begins the Fasti (Festivals), 6 books that detail the first 6 months of the year and provide valuable insights into the Roman Calendar.

Births

Deaths

Notes and references

  1. ^ Klingaman, William K., The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman, 1990, p 67

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Decades: 20s BC  10s BC  0s BC  – 0s –  10s  20s  30s
Years: AD AD ADADAD 10 AD 11 AD
8 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
BirthsDeaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
EstablishmentsDisestablishments
8 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 8
VIII
Ab urbe condita 760
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -1836 – -1835
Bengali calendar -585
Berber calendar 958
Buddhist calendar 552
Burmese calendar -630
Byzantine calendar 5516 – 5517
Chinese calendar 丁卯年十二月初五日
(2644/2704-12-5)
— to —
戊辰年十一月十五日
(2645/2705-11-15)
Coptic calendar -276 – -275
Ethiopian calendar 0 – 1
Hebrew calendar 3768 – 3769
Hindu calendars
 - Bikram Samwat 64 – 65
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 3109 – 3110
Holocene calendar 10008
Iranian calendar 614 BP – 613 BP
Islamic calendar 633 BH – 632 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 2341
Thai solar calendar 551

Year 8 (VIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

Europe

Mid-East

Asia

  • Start of Chushi era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
  • In China, Wang Mang crushes a rebellion by Chai I, and on the winter solstice (which has been dated January 10 of the following year) officially assumes the title emperor, establishing the short-lived Xin Dynasty.[1]

By topic

Arts

  • After completing Metamorphoses, Ovid begins the Fasti (Festivals), 6 books that detail the first 6 months of the year and provide valuable insights into the Roman Calendar.

Births

Deaths

Notes and references

  1. ^ Klingaman, William K., The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman, 1990, p 67


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8

  1. The cardinal number eight.

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Genealogy

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Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century
Decades: 20s BC  10s BC  0s BC  - 0s -  10s  20s  30s

Years: 5     6    7    - 8 -  9  10  11
8 by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
8 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 8
VIII

Ab urbe condita 761
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -1836 – -1835
Buddhist calendar 552
Coptic calendar -276 – -275
Ethiopian calendar 0 – 1
Hebrew calendar 3768 – 3769
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 63 – 64
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 3109 – 3110
Holocene calendar 10008
Iranian calendar 614 BP – 613 BP
Islamic calendar 633 BH – 632 BH
Japanese calendar
 - Imperial Year Kōki 668
(皇紀668年)
Julian calendar 53
Korean calendar 2341
Thai solar calendar 551

Year 8 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

An effort is made to betrothe Claudius to Livia Medullina.

Europe

Mid-East

Asia

Arts

  • Ovid begins the Fasti (Festivals), 6 books that detail the first 6 months of the year and provide valuable insights into the Roman Calendar.

Births

Deaths

People of the year 8 at Familypedia

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Simple English

8 is a year in the 1st century.

Centuries: 1st Century BC · 1st century · 2nd century
Decades: 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC 0s 10s 20s 30s
Years: 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Contents

Events

By place

Roman Empire

  • August 3 - Roman general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.
  • Vipsania Julia is exiled. Lucius Aemilius Paullus and his family are disgraced. Augustus breaks off engagement of Claudius to Paullus' daughter Aemilia Lepida.
  • Effort is made to betrothe Claudius to Livia Medullina
  • Marcus Furius Camillus, Sextus Nonius Quinctilianus, suff. Lucius Apronius become Roman Consuls.
  • Roman poet Ovid is banished from Rome and exiled to the Black Sea near Tomis (present-day Constanţa).

Europe

  • Tincomarus, deposed king of the Atrebates, flees Britain for Rome; Eppillus becomes king.

Mid-East

  • Vonones I becomes king of Parthia.

Asia

  • Start of Chushi era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
  • Wang Mang seizes power in China and establishes the short-lived Xin Dynasty.
  • China invents paper, which is first used by the military.

Arts

  • Ovid begins the Fasti (Festivals), 6 books that detail the first 6 months of the year and provide valuable insights into the Roman calendar.

Births

Deaths

  • Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Roman general (born 64 BC).bjn:8







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