Year 8 (VIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Roman Empire August 3 ? Roman general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatians on the River Bathinus. Vipsania Julia is exiled. Lucius Aemilius Paullus and his family are disgraced. Augustus breaks off the engagement of Claudius to Paullus' daughter Aemilia Lepida. An effort is made to betrothe Claudius to Livia Medullina. Marcus Furius Camillus, Sextus Nonius Quinctilianus, and Lucius Apronius become Roman Consuls. Roman poet Ovid is banished from Rome and exiled to the Black Sea near Tomis (present-day Constan?a). 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 m

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