8

8 (VIII) is a leap year of the Julian calendar which started on a Sunday. According to the Gregorian calendar, it started on a Tuesday. It was the 8th year of the 1st century.

 Events 
 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).
 Ovid begins the Fasti (Festivals), 6 books that detail the first 6 months of the year.

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

 Mid-East 
 Vonones I becomes king of Parthia.
8 or 9 CE: Attambelos II. dies and is being replaced by Abinergaos I. who is becoming the new King of Characene.

 Asia 
 Start of Chushi era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
China invents paper, which is first used by the military.

 Births 
 Titus Flavius Sabinus, Roman consul and brother of emperor Vespasian (d. 69)

 Deaths 
Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Roman general (b. 64 BC).

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