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{{dablink|This page is about the year 8 AD. For the actual number, see [[eight]].}} {{year nav|8}} {{Year in other calendars}} {{wiktionary|eight}} '''8''' ([[Roman numerals|'''VIII''']]) is a [[leap year]] of the [[Julian calendar]] which started on a [[leap year starting on Sunday|Sunday]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.calendarhome.com/cgi-bin/tycyear.pl?year=8&change=1&suppresshol= |title=CalendarHome.com - 8 |first= |last= |work=calendarhome.com |year=2011 |accessdate=August 23, 2011}}</ref> According to the [[Gregorian calendar]], it started on a [[leap year starting on Tuesday|Tuesday]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=year+8 |title=year 8 - Wolfram&#124;Alpha |first= |last= |work=wolframalpha.com |year=2011|accessdate=August 23, 2011}}</ref> It was the 8th year of the [[1st century]]. == Events == === Roman Empire === * [[August 3]] – [[Roman Empire|Roman]] [[General officer|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 [[List of Early Imperial Roman Consuls|Roman Consuls]]. *[[Ancient Rome|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 of Parthia|Vonones I]] becomes king of [[Parthia]]. === Asia === * Start of [[Chushi era]] of the [[China|Chinese]] [[Han Dynasty]]. * [[Wang Mang]] seizes power in [[China]] and establishes the short-lived [[Xin Dynasty]]. *China invents [[paper]], wh