May 8. May 8 is the 128th day of the year (129th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 237 days remain until the end of the year. Events Pre-1600 453 BC ??? Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin. 413 ??? Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths. 589 ??? Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo, marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church. 1360 ??? Treaty of Br??tigny drafted between King Edward III of England and King John II of France (the Good). 1373 ??? Julian of Norwich, a Christian mystic and anchoress, experiences the deathbed visions described in her Revelations of...