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

[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Roman Empire

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

[edit] Europe

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

[edit] Mid-East

• Vonones I becomes king of Parthia.

[edit] 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]

[edit] 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.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Roman general (born 64 BC)

[edit] Notes and references

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