258 BC

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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries: 4th century BC3rd century BC2nd century BC
Decades: 280s BC  270s BC  260s BC 250s BC 240s BC  230s BC  220s BC
Years: 261 BC 260 BC 259 BC258 BC257 BC 256 BC 255 BC
258 BC by topic
Politics
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258 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar258 BC
Ab urbe condita496
Armenian calendarN/A
Assyrian calendar4493
Bahá'í calendar−2101 – −2100
Bengali calendar−850
Berber calendar693
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar287
Burmese calendar−895
Byzantine calendar5251–5252
Chinese calendar壬寅(Water Tiger)
2439 or 2379
     to 
癸卯年 (Water Rabbit)
2440 or 2380
Coptic calendar−541 – −540
Discordian calendar909
Ethiopian calendar−265 – −264
Hebrew calendar3503–3504
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−201 – −200
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2844–2845
Holocene calendar9743
Igbo calendar−1257 – −1256
Iranian calendar879 BP – 878 BP
Islamic calendar906 BH – 905 BH
Japanese calendarN/A
Juche calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2076
Minguo calendar2169 before ROC
民前2169年
Thai solar calendar286

Year 258 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Calatinus and Peterculus (or, less frequently, year 496 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 258 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

  • The Romans are able to regain the initiative in Sicily against Carthage by retaking Enna and Camarina. In central Sicily, they take the town of Mytistraton, which they have attacked twice previously. The Romans also move in the north by marching across the northern coast toward Panormus, but are not able to take the city.
  • Gaius Duilius Nepos, the Roman commander who has won a major naval victory over the Carthaginians is made censor with Lucius Cornelius Scipio. The election of a novus homo (i.e. the first in his family to serve in the Roman Senate or be elected as consul) to the censorship is a very rare honor.

Egypt

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Vietnam

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