258

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

258 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	258 CCLVIII
Ab urbe condita	1011
Assyrian calendar	5008
Balinese saka calendar	179–180
Bengali calendar	−336 – −335
Berber calendar	1208
Buddhist calendar	802
Burmese calendar	−380
Byzantine calendar	5766–5767
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 2955 or 2748     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 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 before ROC 民前1654年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1210
Seleucid era	569/570 AG
Thai solar calendar	800–801
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Fire-Ox) 384 or 3 or −769     — to — ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Tiger) 385 or 4 or −768

Year 258 (CCLVIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Tuscus and Bassus (or, less frequently, year 1011 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 258 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 Empire

• The Goths ravage Asia Minor and Trapezus.
• The amount of silver in the Roman currency of the denarius falls below 10%. The crisis ruins craftsmen, tradesmen, and small farmers, who are forced into bartering; landowners grow richer by buying up cheap land.
• Valerian II, eldest son of Gallienus, dies, possibly murdered by Pannonia's governor Ingenuus; Emperor Valerian bestows on another one of Gallienus's sons, Saloninus, the title of Caesar.
• A second Imperial edict prohibits Christianity in the Roman Empire. This edict divides Christians into four categories: priests, who are to be put to death; senators and equestrians, 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 Zhao quells Zhuge Dan's rebellion, thereby also ending what are known as the Three Rebellions in Shouchun.
• Sun Xiu succeeds his brother Sun Liang as emperor of the Chinese state of Eastern Wu.

By topic

Religion

• Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, is martyred (decapitation).
• Pope Sixtus II, bishop of Rome, is martyred.

Births

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

Deaths

• August 6 – Sixtus II, bishop of Rome
• September 14 – Cyprian, bishop of Carthage
• Anak the Parthian, Parthian nobleman
• Chen Zhi (or Fengzong), Chinese politician
• Novatian, Italian antipope and theologian
• Valerian II, son of co-emperor Gallienus
• Zhuge Dan (or Gongxiu), Chinese general