58

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

Events

By place

Roman Empire

* Roman emperor Nero is also a Roman Consul.
* The friendship between Nero and Otho ends when they both fall in love with Poppea Sabina, and Otho is sent to Lusitania as governor.
* War with the Parthians begins.
* Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman commander in the east captures Artaxata in Armenia, in the war against Parthia.
* The Ficus Ruminalis begins to die (see Rumina).

Europe

* In Thuringia conflict between two Germanic tribes erupts over access to water.

Asia

* 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. [Roberts, J: "History of the World.". Penguin, 1994.]

By topic

Religion

* 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.
* Paul writes his Epistle to the Romans.

Births

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

Deaths

* Deng Yu, general of Han Dynasty (b. 2)

References