Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	30s BC  20s BC  10s BC  – 0s BC –  0s  10s  20s
Years:	11 BC 10 BC 9 BC – 8 BC – 7 BC 6 BC 5 BC

8 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

8 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	8 BC
Ab urbe condita	746
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1851 – -1850
Bengali calendar	-600
Berber calendar	943
Buddhist calendar	537
Burmese calendar	-645
Byzantine calendar	5501 – 5502
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (2629/2689) — to — 癸丑年 (2630/2690)
Coptic calendar	-291 – -290
Ethiopian calendar	-15 – -14
Hebrew calendar	3753 – 3754
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	48 – 49
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3094 – 3095
Holocene calendar	9993
Iranian calendar	629 BP – 628 BP
Islamic calendar	648 BH – 647 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2326
Thai solar calendar	536
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Year 8 BC was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events

[edit] Births

• Empress Wang (d. 23)

[edit] Deaths

• November 27—Horace, Roman poet (b. 65 BC)
• Maecenas, Roman politician and patron of the arts (b. 70 BC)
• Empress Xu