This date format originates from the custom of writing the date as ' the 8th day of November in the year of our Lord 2003 ' in western religious and legal documents, which at one time were the majority of documents created.

A fragment from Kuntillet Ajrud ( 9th / 8th centuries ) mentions Baal in association with Yahweh, but in this case the word might simply mean " Lord " ( the literal meaning of " baal ").

** Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier ( d. 1823 )

With the help of Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare and his brother Thomas FitzGerald of Laccagh, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Lincoln recruited 4, 500 Irish mercenaries, mostly Kerns, lightly armoured but highly mobile infantry.

* Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk ( 1683 – 1732 ), son of Lord Thomas Howard and Mary Elizabeth Savile

Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, 8th Laird of Auchinleck ( 1706 – 1782 ) was a judge of the supreme courts of Scotland.

As a judge he took the courtesy title Lord Auchinleck from the name of his estate at Auchinleck House, of which he was the 8th Laird.

Her great-uncle was Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, who was leader of the Liberal Party in the 1870s, and a close colleague of William Ewart Gladstone, Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Salisbury.

As per the few scholars " Madhava " is the name given to the Lord Krishna ( 8th Incarnation of Lord Vishnu ).

The pall-bearers were several of his clients: Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch ; George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry ; James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale ; David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield ; Lord Frederick Campbell and Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet.

By 1593, John, 8th Lord Maxwell was repairing the castle again, building up the gatehouse for defence against the Johnstones of Annandale, with whom the Maxwells were feuding.

Crashing half through the target wall, Lizardo had been briefly trapped in the 8th dimension where his mind was taken over by Lord John Whorfin.

He became chaplain successively to Lord Saye and Sele and George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley.

Lord Romsey was the courtesy title by which Lady Mountbatten of Burma's eldest son and heir was known until he succeeded his father as 8th Lord Brabourne.

* Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch KT GCVO TD PC, brother of Lord William Scott, who was another member.

Of his daughters: Isobel married John, 8th Lord Elphinstone, and Mary married Charles Carnegie, 4th Earl of Southesk.

As a descendant of the first Baron Burghley Lord Salisbury is also in remainder to this peerage, a title held by his kinsman Michael Cecil, 8th Marquess of Exeter.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO, DL ( 10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902 ), known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Bt from 1837 to 1869 and usually referred to simply as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer.

* Alexander Murray, 8th Lord Elibank ( 1780 – 1830 )

Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire KG, GCVO, PC, PC ( Ire ) ( 23 July 1833 – 24 March 1908 ), styled Lord Cavendish of Keighley between 1834 and 1858 and Marquess of Hartington between 1858 and 1891, was a British statesman.

* " Lord Mahavira in the eyes of foreigners " by Akshaya Kumar Jain ( 1975 ) Meena Bharati New Delhi 110003 ( India ) vaibhav singh 8th

In England the abuse was rife in the 8th century, as may be gathered from the acts of the council of Cloveshoe.

In western Europe Arianism, which had been taught by Ulfilas, the Arian missionary to the Germanic tribes, was dominant among the Goths and Lombards ( and, significantly for the late Empire, the Vandals ); but it ceased to be the mainstream belief by the 8th century.

In 2009, Aachen was ranked 8th among cities in Germany for innovation.

Founded in 437 BC, the city was finally abandoned in the 8th century AD.

Due to the strategic location of the site it was fortified from very early. In the 8th and 7th century BC the site of Amphipolis was ruled by Illyrian tribes.

Latin translation of Abū Maʿshar's De Magnis Coniunctionibus (‘ Of the great Conjunction ( astronomy and astrology ) | conjunctions ’), Venice, 1515. Astrology was taken up by Islamic scholars following the collapse of Alexandria to the Arabs in the 7th century, and the founding of the Abbasid empire in the 8th.

The Islamic Golden Age was inaugurated by the middle of the 8th century by the ascension of the Abbasid Caliphate and the transfer of the capital from Damascus to the newly founded city Baghdad.

Ælle was the first king recorded by the 8th century chronicler Bede to have held " imperium ", or overlordship, over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

8th century BC ), which included, besides Aegina, Athens, the Minyan ( Boeotian ) Orchomenus, Troezen, Hermione, Nauplia and Prasiae, and was probably an organization of city-states that were still Mycenaean, for the purpose of suppressing piracy in the Aegean that arose as a result of the decay of the naval supremacy of the Mycenaean princes.

His direct male descendants ended in 1387 in Henry Nevill, 6th Baron Bergavenny, but a cousin, Edward Nevill, 8th Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1622 ), was confirmed in the Barony in 1604.

Spanish Adoptionism was a theological position which was articulated in Umayyad and Christian-held regions of the Iberian peninsula in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Kiernan's reasoning has in part to do with the much-discussed political context of the poem: it has been held by most scholars, until recently, that the poem was composed in the 8th century on the assumption that a poem eliciting sympathy for the Danes could not have been composed by Anglo-Saxons during the Viking Ages of the 9th and 10th centuries, and that the poem celebrates the namesakes of 8th Century Mercian Kings.

He was promoted to major-general in October 1938 and took command of the 8th Infantry Division in Palestine.

Mercia was arguably the most powerful Anglo-Saxon kingdom for much of the late 7th and 8th centuries, though Mercian kings are missed out of the two main ' lists '.

The original Old English language was then influenced by two waves of invasion ; the first was by language speakers of the Scandinavian branch of the Germanic family ; they conquered and colonised parts of Britain in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Archaeological confirmation of Bethlehem as an Israelite city was uncovered in 2012 at the archaeological dig at the City of David in the form of a bulla ( seal impression in dried clay ) in ancient Hebrew script that reads " From the town of Bethlehem to the King ," indicating that it was used to seal the string closing a shipment of grain, wine, or other goods sent as a tax payment in the 8th or 7th century BCE.

After being conquered by the Arabs in the early 8th century, it was reconquered in 801 by Charlemagne's son Louis, who made Barcelona the seat of the Carolingian " Hispanic March " ( Marca Hispanica ), a buffer zone ruled by the Count of Barcelona.

The ILLIAC had up to 128 parallel processors while the B6700 & B7700 only accommodated a total of 7 CPUs and / or IO units ( the 8th unit was the memory tester ).

Established in the middle of the 8th century and thus being one of the earliest urban settlements in Scandinavia, Birka was the Baltic link in the river and portage route through Ladoga ( Aldeigja ) and Novgorod ( Holmsgard ) to the Byzantine Empire and the Abbasid Califate.

Chinese chronicles proclaim that in the 8th century, Chenla was split into land Chenla and water Chenla.