58

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

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.

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

References

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