8 v. Chr.

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Heads of state

8 v. Chr.
8 v. In other calendars
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) 49/50 (turn of the year April)
Buddhist calendar 536/537 (southern Buddhism); 535/536 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar 44th (45th) cycle , year of the water-buffalo 癸丑 ( at the beginning of the year water-rat 壬子)
Greek calendar 4th year of the 192nd / 1st year of the 193rd Olympiad
Jewish calendar 3753/54 (September 5-6)
Roman calendar from urbe condita DCCXLVI (746)
Seleucid era Babylon: 303/304 (turn of the year April); Syria: 304/305 (New Year October)
Spanish era 31

Events

  • The month of Sextilis is renamed Augustus .
  • Third extension of the imperium proconsulare of Augustus to 10 years. The imperium proconsulare was one of the central instruments of rule of Augustus and his successors (supreme authority over the legions stationed in the endangered provinces), but was never awarded to Princeeps Augustus for life, but only extended by the Senate: 18 and 13 BC. By 5 years, 8 BC. As well as 3 and 13 AD by 10 years. Only Tiberius received the imperium proconsulare on August 19, 14 AD for life.

Died

Horace (fantasy representation after Anton von Werner)

Web links

Commons : 8 BC Chr.  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Dietmar Kienast: Roman Empire Table , 2nd edition, Darmstadt 1996, 66.
  2. Dietmar Kienast: Roman Imperial Table , 2nd edition, Darmstadt 1996, 77.