58

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	20s 30s 40s – 50s – 60s 70s 80s
Years:	55 56 57 – 58 – 59 60 61

58 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

Year 58 (LVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Roman emperor Nero and Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus become Roman consuls.
The friendship between Nero and Marcus Salvius Otho ends when they both fall in love with Poppea Sabina, and Otho is sent to Lusitania as governor.
Roman-Parthian War: Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, commander in the East, launched his Armenian offensive against Parthia. He led a Roman army (four legions) through the mountainous country of Armenia, against the fortress at Volandum, to the southwest of Artaxata. After a siege of eight hours Corbulo takes the city, the legionairs massacred the defenders and plunder Volandum to their hearts' content.
Corbulo marched to Artaxata crossing the Aras River, along the valley he is shadowed by tens of thousands of mounted Parthian archers led by king Tiridates I. The city opened its gates to Corbulo, just as it had to Germanicus four decades before. When he takes the 250-year-old Armenian capital, Corbulo gives the residents a few hours to collect their valuables and burns the city to the ground.
The Ficus Ruminalis begins to die (see Rumina).

Start of Yongping era of the Chinese Han Dynasty.
Ming-Ti, new emperor of China, introduces Buddhism to China and the West Indus Valley.
In China, sacrifices to Confucius are ordered in all government schools.^[1]

The apostle Paul is arrested in Jerusalem, and is imprisoned in Caesarea. He then invokes his Roman citizenship and is sent to Rome to be judged.
St. Paul writes his Epistle to the Romans.

Juvenal, Roman poet
Xu Shen, Chinese author of the large Shuowen Jiezi dictionary of etymology (d. 147)