8th
Portal history | Portal Biographies | Current events | Annual calendar
◄ |
1st century BC Chr. |
1st century
| 2nd century
| ►
◄ |
20s v. Chr. |
10s v. Chr. |
0er v. Chr. |
0s
| 10s
| 20s
| 30s
| ►
◄◄ |
◄ |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8
| 9
| 10
| 11
| 12
| ►
| ►►
Calendar overview 8
8th | |
---|---|
Tiberius succeeds only slowly in containing the Pannonian uprising . |
|
The year 8 in other calendars | |
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 64/65 (turn of the year April) |
Buddhist calendar | 551/552 (southern Buddhism); 550/551 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
Chinese calendar | 45th (46th) cycle , year of the earth-dragon龙 辰 ( at the beginning of the year fire-rabbit 丁卯) |
Greek calendar | 3rd / 4th Year of the 196th Olympiad |
Jewish calendar | 3768/69 (September 19-20) |
Roman calendar | from urbe condita DCCLXI (761) |
Seleucid era | Babylon: 318/319 (April turn of the year); Syria: 319/320 (turn of the year October) |
Spanish era | 46 |
Events
Politics and world events
Roman Empire
- Marcus Furius Camillus and Sextus Nonius Quinctilianus are consuls of the Roman Empire . Later that year Lucius Apronius and Aulus Vibius Habitus became suffect consuls .
- August 3 : The later Emperor Tiberius defeats the rebellious Dalmatians in the province of Illyricum .
- Tincomarus, who, together with his brother Eppilus , ruled over the Roman client state of the Atrebates on the south coast of Britain , was driven out by his compatriots. From now on Eppilus rules the empire alone.
- The Roman Empire concludes a friendship treaty with the Germanic Marcomanni under Marbod . This gives them the status of a clientele.
- Iulia Minor , the granddaughter of Emperor Augustus , is exiled to the Tremiti Islands because of her affair with Senator Decimus Silanus . The engagement between her daughter Aemilia Lepida and T. Claudius Nero Germanicus (later Emperor Claudius ) is dissolved. Instead, Claudius becomes engaged to Livia Medullina , daughter of the consul Marcus Furius Camillus . However, this dies before the marriage.
Asia
- (or 9) Attambelos II , the King of the Charakene , dies. He is succeeded by Abinergaos I.
science and technology
- The Chinese astronomer Liu Xin publishes an astronomical system that he calls "triple agreement". In this he calculates the length of an earth year with 365.25016 days - that is only eleven minutes more than the current value.
Culture and society
- Autumn: Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid , is exiled by Emperor Augustus personally and without a Senate resolution to Tomis , Moesia province (today: Constanța ). The exact reason is not known. There he begins to write the Tristia , poetic letters in elegiac form, which he sends from his exile to various addressees.
Born
- at 8: Titus Flavius Sabinus , Roman politician († 69 )
Died
- Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus , Roman general and writer (* 64 BC )
- at 8: Dionysios of Halicarnassus , Roman rhetorician, writer and historian (* around 54 BC)
- 7/8 : Dynamis , Queen of the Bosporan Empire (* 63 BC )
Web links
Commons : 8 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files