Events on 8 June 45
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Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
Year 793
Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.
Year 1042
Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.
Year 1405
Richard le Scrope, the Archbishop of York, and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
Year 1776
American Revolutionary War: American attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
Year 1783
Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
Year 1789
James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
Year 1794
Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
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Birthdays on 8 June 199
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Deaths on 8 June 79
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