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Calendar overview 8
Map with all linked sites: | 8th | |
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 Tiberius succeeds only slowly in containing the Pannonian uprising . |
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| 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
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