Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
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258 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar258 BC
CCLVIII BC
Ab urbe condita496
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 66
- PharaohPtolemy II Philadelphus, 26
Ancient Greek era130th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar4493
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−850
Berber calendar693
Buddhist calendar287
Burmese calendar−895
Byzantine calendar5251–5252
Chinese calendar壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
2440 or 2233
     to 
癸卯年 (Water Rabbit)
2441 or 2234
Coptic calendar−541 – −540
Discordian calendar909
Ethiopian calendar−265 – −264
Hebrew calendar3503–3504
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−201 – −200
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga2843–2844
Holocene calendar9743
Iranian calendar879 BP – 878 BP
Islamic calendar906 BH – 905 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2076
Minguo calendar2169 before ROC
民前2169年
Nanakshahi calendar−1725
Seleucid era54/55 AG
Thai solar calendar285–286
Tibetan calendar阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
−131 or −512 or −1284
     to 
阴水兔年
(female Water-Rabbit)
−130 or −511 or −1283

Year 258 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Calatinus and Peterculus (or, less frequently, year 496 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 258 BC 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 Republic

  • The Romans are able to regain the initiative in Sicily against Carthage by retaking Enna and Camarina. In central Sicily, they take the town of Mytistraton, which they have attacked twice previously. The Romans also move in the north by marching across the northern coast toward Panormus, but are not able to take the city due to the city's heavily fortified walls.
  • Gaius Duilius Nepos, the Roman commander who has won a major naval victory over the Carthaginians is made censor with Lucius Cornelius Scipio. The election of a novus homo (i.e. the first in his family to serve in the Roman Senate or be elected as consul) to the censorship is a very rare honor.

Egypt

Greece

China

Vietnam

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    Deaths

      References

      1. Qian, Sima. Records of the Grand Historian, Section: Bai Qi.
      2. Qian, Sima. Records of the Grand Historian, Section: Lu Buwei.
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