458 BC

Centuries:	6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC
Decades:	480s BC 470s BC 460s BC - 450s BC - 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC
Years:	461 BC 460 BC 459 BC - 458 BC - 457 BC 456 BC 455 BC

458 BC by topic
Politics
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**458 BC in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	458 BC
Ab urbe condita	296
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-2301 – -2300
Berber calendar	493
Buddhist calendar	87
Burmese calendar	-1095
Chinese calendar	2179/2239 ([[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年) — to — 2180/2240 ([[Sexagenary cycle\|]]年)
Coptic calendar	-741 – -740
Ethiopian calendar	-465 – -464
Hebrew calendar	3303 – 3304
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-402 – -401
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2644 – 2645
Holocene calendar	9543
Iranian calendar	1079 BP – 1078 BP
Islamic calendar	1112 BH – 1111 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	1876
Thai solar calendar	86
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[edit] Events

Pleistoanax succeeds his father Pleistarchus as king of Sparta.
Pericles continues Ephialtes' democratising activities by making the archonship a paid office and the lower class of Athenian citizens eligible to hold the office.
The Atenians start constructing the Long Walls to protect the route from their city to the port city of Piraeus.
Aegina joins the Peloponnesian alliance, but their combined fleet is defeated by the Athenians in the Battle of Aegina. The Athenians, under the command of Leosthenes, land on the island of Aegina and besiege and defeat the city. Aegina is forced to pay tribute to Athens.

The Roman general Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus is summoned by the Roman Senate to defend the city from attack by the approaching Aequi. He is named dictator of Rome for six months. He goes on to defeat the enemy in a single day at the Battle of Mons Algidus and celebrates a triumph in Rome. Sixteen days after the battle, he resigns his dictatorship and returns to his farm.

The Athenian playwright Aeschylus completes his trilogy The Oresteia (which comprise Agamemnon, Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers) and The Eumenides).