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Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	20s 30s 40s – 50s – 60s 70s 80s
Years:	55 56 57 – 58 – 59 60 61

This article is about the year. For the number, see 58 (number).

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

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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).

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.^[1]

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.
St. Paul writes his Epistle to the Romans.

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

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