What happened in 8 BC?
2 recorded events in 8 BC, including 2 in people.
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People 2
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Horace died
Roman lyric poet (65 BC – 8 BC)
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Gaius Maecenas died
Roman political advisor (d. 8 BC)
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Around this time
The nearest recorded events on either side of 8 BC.
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Marcus Junius Silanus died
Roman consul 25 BC
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Aenesidemus died
1st century BC Greek Pyrrhonist philosopher
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Titus Statilius Taurus died
Roman soldier and politician, consul in 26 BC
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Boethus of Sidon died
Peripatetic philosopher from Sidon 75-10BC
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Nero Claudius Drusus died
Roman general and statesman (38–9 BC)
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Asconius Pedianus born
Born in Padua. Roman historian (BC 9 - AD 76).
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Ara Pacis
Ancient Roman monument in Rome
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Dionysius of Halicarnassus died
1st-century BC Greek historian and teacher
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Liu Xiang died
Chinese official, scholar and writer (77–6 BCE)
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Consort Ban died
Chinese scholar, poet and writer
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Temple of Venus Erycina
Ancient temple in Erice, Sicily
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Seneca born
Born in Corduba. Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist (c. 4 BCE–65 CE).
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