8

This page is about the year 8 AD. For the actual number, see eight.

8 (VIII) is a leap year of the Julian calendar which started on a Sunday.^[1] According to the Gregorian calendar, it started on a Tuesday.^[2] It was the 8th year of the 1st century.

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

AD 8 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	AD 8 VIII
Ab urbe condita	761
Assyrian calendar	4758
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−585
Berber calendar	958
Buddhist calendar	552
Burmese calendar	−630
Byzantine calendar	5516–5517
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 2704 or 2644     — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 2705 or 2645
Coptic calendar	−276 – −275
Discordian calendar	1174
Ethiopian calendar	0–1
Hebrew calendar	3768–3769
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	64–65
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3108–3109
Holocene calendar	10008
Iranian calendar	614 BP – 613 BP
Islamic calendar	633 BH – 632 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	AD 8 VIII
Korean calendar	2341
Minguo calendar	1904 before ROC 民前1904年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1460
Seleucid era	319/320 AG
Thai solar calendar	550–551
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Fire-Hare) 134 or −247 or −1019     — to — ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dragon) 135 or −246 or −1018

Events

Roman Empire

• August 3 – Roman general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.
• Vipsania Julia is exiled. Lucius Aemilius Paullus and his family are disgraced. Augustus breaks off engagement of Claudius to Paullus' daughter Aemilia Lepida.
• Effort is made to betrothe Claudius to Livia Medullina
• Marcus Furius Camillus, Sextus Nonius Quinctilianus, suff. Lucius Apronius become Roman Consuls.
• Roman poet Ovid is banished from Rome and exiled to the Black Sea near Tomis (present-day Constanţa).
• Ovid begins the Fasti (Festivals), 6 books that detail the first 6 months of the year.

Europe

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

Mid-East

• Vonones I becomes king of Parthia.

Asia

• Start of Chushi era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
• Wang Mang seizes power in China and establishes the short-lived Xin Dynasty.
• China invents paper, which is first used by the military.

Births

• Titus Flavius Sabinus, Roman consul and brother of emperor Vespasian (d. 69)

Deaths

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