258

This article is about the year 258. For the number, see258 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century 3rd century 4th century
Decades:	230s 240s 250s 260s 270s
Years:	255 256 257 258 259 260 261

258 in variouscalendars

Gregorian calendar	258 CCLVIII
Ab urbe condita	1011
Assyrian calendar	5008
Balinese saka calendar	179–180
Bengali calendar	−335
Berber calendar	1208
Buddhist calendar	802
Burmese calendar	−380
Byzantine calendar	5766–5767
Chinese calendar	Đinh SửuNăm (FireOx) 2955 or 2748 — to — Mậu Dần năm (EarthTiger) 2956 or 2749
Coptic calendar	−26 – −25
Discordian calendar	1424
Ethiopian calendar	250–251
Hebrew calendar	4018–4019
Hindu calendars
-Vikram Samvat	314–315
-Shaka Samvat	179–180
-Kali Yuga	3358–3359
Holocene calendar	10258
Iranian calendar	364 BP – 363 BP
Islamic calendar	375 BH – 374 BH
Javanese calendar	137–138
Julian calendar	258 CCLVIII
Korean calendar	2591
Minguo calendar	1654 beforeROC Dân trước 1654 năm
Nanakshahi calendar	−1210
Seleucid era	569/570AG
Thai solar calendar	800–801
Tibetan calendar	Âm hỏa ngưu năm (female Fire-Ox) 384 or 3 or −769 — to — Dương thổ hổ năm (male Earth-Tiger) 385 or 4 or −768

Year258(CCLVIII) was acommon year starting on Friday(link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar.At the time, it was known as theYear of the Consulship of Tuscus and Bassus(or, less frequently,year 1011Ab urbe condita). The denomination 258 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when theAnno Dominicalendar erabecame the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• TheGothsravageAsia MinorandTrapezus.
• The amount ofsilverin theRoman currencyof thedenariusfalls below 10%. Thecrisisruinscraftsmen,tradesmen,and smallfarmers,who are forced intobartering;landowners grow richer by buying up cheap land.
• Valerian II,eldest son ofGallienus,dies, possibly murdered byPannonia'sgovernorIngenuus;EmperorValerianbestows on another one of Gallienus's sons,Saloninus,the title ofCaesar.
• A second ImperialedictprohibitsChristianityin the Roman Empire. This edict divides Christians into four categories:priests,who are to be put to death; senators andequestrians,who are to be stripped of their positions and their property confiscated;nuns,who are to be exiled; and imperial civil servants, who are condemned to forced labour.

Asia

• Sima ZhaoquellsZhuge Dan's rebellion, thereby also ending what are known as theThree Rebellions in Shouchun.
• Sun Xiusucceeds his brotherSun Liangas emperor of the Chinese state ofEastern Wu.

By topic

Religion

• Cyprian,bishop ofCarthage,is martyred (decapitation).
• PopeSixtus II,bishop ofRome,is martyred.

Births

• Clement of Ancyra,Christian bishop and martyr (d.312)

Deaths

• August 6–Sixtus II,bishop ofRome
• September 14–Cyprian,bishop ofCarthage
• Anak the Parthian,Parthian nobleman
• Chen Zhi(orFengzong), Chinese politician
• Novatian,Italian antipope and theologian
• Valerian II,son of co-emperorGallienus
• Zhuge Dan(orGongxiu), Chinese general