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Use mdy dates|date=February 2011Year dab|58Year nav|58M1 year in topic NOTOC Year 58 ( Roman numerals|LVIII ) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar . At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Messalla (or, less frequently, ' year 811 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 58 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.
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Roman Empire
Roman emperor Nero and Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus (consul 58)|Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus become List of Early Imperial Roman Consuls|Roman consuls .
The friendship between Nero and Otho|Marcus Salvius Otho ends when they both fall in love with Poppea Sabina , and Otho is sent to Lusitania as governor.
Roman–Parthian War of 58–63|Roman-Parthian War : Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo , commander in the East, launched his Armenian offensive against Parthia . He led a Roman army (four Roman legion|legions ) through the mountainous country of Armenia , against the fortress at Volandum , to the southwest of Artaxata . After a siege of eight hours Corbulo takes the city, the legionary|legionnaires massacred the defenders and plunder Volandum to their hearts' content.
Corbulo marched to Artaxata crossing the Aras River , along the valley he is shadowed by tens of thousands of mounted Parthian archers led by king Tiridates I of Parthia|Tiridates I . The city opened its gates to Corbulo, just as it had to Germanicus four decades before. When he takes the 250-year-old Armenian capital, Corbulo gives the residents a few hours to collect their valuables and burns the city to the ground.
The Ficus Ruminalis begins to die (see Rumina ).
Europe
In Thuringia conflict between two Germanic tribes erupts over access to water.
Gnaeus Julius Agricola , age 18-year old, is serving as a military tribune in Roman Britain|Britain under Gaius Suetonius Paulinus and is attached to Legio II Augusta|Legio II Augusta .
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.
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Religion
The apostle Paul of Tarsus|Paul is arrested in Jerusalem , and is imprisoned in Caesarea . He then invokes his Roman citizenship and is sent to Ancient Rome|Rome to be judged.
St. 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)
