Does anyone know facts in history that involve the number 8? Like 8 generals or 8 battles.?

Answer 1

The number 8 is a Fibonacci number, being 3 plus 5. The next Fibonacci number is 13.

The number 8 is involved with a number of interesting mathematical phenomena related to the notion of Bott periodicity.

Eight is the number of Thurston model geometries.

In the beginning, various groups in India wrote eight more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase H with the bottom half of the left line and the upper half of the right line removed. At one point this glyph came close to looking like our modern five. With the western Ghubar Arabs, the similarity of the glyph to five was banished by connecting the beginning and the end of stroke together, and it was only a matter of the Europeans rounding the glyph that led to our modern eight.

The atomic number of oxygen.
The number of allotropes of carbon.
In physics, the second magic number.
In particle physics, the eightfold way is used to classify sub-atomic particles.
All spiders, and more generally all arachnids, have eight legs. An octopus has eight tentacles
Timothy Leary identified a hierarchy of eight levels of consciousness
The most stable allotrope of a sulfur molecule is made of eight sulfur atoms arranged in a rhombic form.

Messier object M8, a magnitude 5.0 nebula in the constellation of Sagittarius.
The New General Catalogue object NGC 8, a double star in the constellation Pegasus
The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on 2579 BCE March 7 and ended on 1281 BCE April 26. The duration of Saros series 8 was 1298.1 years, and it contained 73 solar eclipses.
The Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began on 2512 BCE July 27 and ended on 961 BCE February 13. The duration of Saros series 7 was 1550.6 years, and it contained 87 lunar eclipses.
As of 2006, in our solar system, eight of the bodies orbiting the Sun are considered to be planets.

The Jewish religious rite of brit milah is held on a baby boy's eighth day of life
Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish holiday that starts on the 25th day of Kislev
Shemini Atzeret (Hebrew: "Eighth Day of Assembly") is a one-day Jewish holiday immediately following the seven-day holiday of Sukkot
The Noble Eightfold Path in the Buddhist faith has eight steps
The Eight Immortals are Chinese deities
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe that humans are responsible for their actions by the age of 8. Before that age, children lack sufficient knowledge to commit sin and are therefore exempt from judgment for their actions.
The Dharmachakra, a Buddhist symbol, has eight spokes
In Scientology, there are 8 dynamics of life. The eighth dynamic represents the Infinity, or God
In Christianity, it is allegoric to christ's sacrifice on the cross and is the number of Beatitudes.

In tarot, card No. 8 is "Strength"
If each of the classical elements is assigned a cosmic projection, the resulting number (8) represents them.

In Astrology, Scorpio is the 8th astrological sign of the Zodiac
In the middle ages, 8 was the number of "unmoving" stars in the sky, and symbolized the perfectioning of incoming planetary energy.

Songs with the number eight in their title include the Byrds's Eight Miles High and the Beatles' Eight Days a Week
Dream Theater's eighth album Octavarium contains many different references to the number 8, including the number of songs and various aspects of the music and cover artwork
"Eight maids a-milking" is the gift on the eighth day of Christmas in the "Twelve Days of Christmas" carol.


In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, eight is a holy number and is considered taboo. Eight is not safe to be said by wizards on the Discworld and is the number of Bel-Shamharoth. Also, there are eight days in a Disc week and eight colours in a Disc spectrum, the eighth one being Octarine
Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark has 8 "fits" (cantos), which is noted in the full name "The Hunting of the Snark - An Agony, in Eight Fits
8 apparitions appear to Macbeth in Act 4 scene 1 of Shakespeare's Macbeth as representations of the 8 descendants of Banquo who will be king.


October was the eighth month in the Roman calendar; currently August is the eighth month.

War of the Eight Princes, a war in Chinese history
"88" is the abbreviated terminology used by the Aryan Brotherhood for the Nazi salute, "Heil Hitler"—"H" being the eighth letter of the alphabet, repeated twice.

The silver piece of eight was coined in the Spanish Empire and moved trade around the world
There are Eight Principles of Yong in Chinese calligraphy.

Answer 2

Erm... but this is Philippine history.

The 8 rays of the sun in the Philippine flag stand for the 8 provinces that fought against the Spanish during their occupation.