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8 BC

NOTOC Year 8 BC was either a common year starting on Friday or Saturday or a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Censorinus and Gaius Asinius (or, less frequently, '*year 746 *Ab urbe condita'''''). The denomination 8 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

  • King Maroboduus becomes ruler of the Marcomanni and fights against the Roman Empire's expansion in Bohemia.
  • Arminius, son of a Cheruscan chieftain, is taken as a hostage to Rome, where he receives a military education.
  • After 20 years, Emperor Augustus initiates his second census of the Roman Empire.
  • Sextilis, the eighth month of the early Julian calendar, is renamed Augustus (August) by a decree of the Roman Senate in honor of Augustus.

Births

  • Wang, Chinese empress of the Han dynasty (d. AD 23)

Deaths

  • November 27 – Horace, Roman lyric poet and writer (b. 65 BC)
  • Gaius Maecenas, Roman politician and advisor (b. 70 BC)
  • Polemon I, Roman client king of the Bosporan Kingdom
  • Xu, Chinese empress of the Han dynasty

References

References

  1. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0197%3Abook%3D7%3Achapter%3D1%3Asection%3D3 7, 1, 3, p. 290]; [[Marcus Velleius Paterculus]], ''Compendium of Roman History'' [http://droitromain.upmf-grenoble.fr/Anglica/VelleiusPaterculus2_Shipley.htm#101-110 2, 108]
  2. . (20 March 2016). ["Maroboduus"](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maroboduus). *Encyclopædia Britannica, inc.*.
  3. (2014). "Arminius". [[Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc..
  4. (11 April 2013). "The Weather Factor". Hodder & Stoughton.
  5. "LacusCurtius • Res Gestae Divi Augusti (II)".
  6. Preserved by [[Macrobius]], ''Saturnalia'' 1.12.35; entry on ''calendarium'', in William Smith, ''A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities'' (John Murray, London, 1875), at [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Calendarium.html#July_and_August LacusCurtius.]
  7. Grant, Michael. "Horace".
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