8

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.

• 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.

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

• Vonones I becomes king of Parthia.

• 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.

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

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