On December 8, history records 37 notable events, 237 famous births and 95 deaths, spanning the years 395 to 1912.
Events on this day include: Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope. (395); Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion. (757).
Notable people born on December 8 include Wang Anshi (1021), Astorre II Manfredi (1412), Queen Jeonghui (1418).
Notable figures who died on this day include Drogo of Metz (855), Arnulf of Carinthia (899), Queen Zhou the Elder (964).
Events on 8 December 37
See all →Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.
Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.
Louis the Stammerer (son of Charles the Bald) is crowned king of the West Frankish Kingdom at Compiègne.
The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana (Ashmyany), launching the most active phase of the Lithuanian Civil War.
A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.
In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived free of Original Sin.
Pope Pius IX promulgates the encylical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas.
Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
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Birthdays on 8 December 237
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