258

Template:Use mdy dates Template:About year Template:Year nav Template:M1 year in topic 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

The Goths ravage Asia Minor and Trapezus.Template:Citation needed
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.Template:Citation needed
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.<ref>Vagi, David L. Coinage and History of the Roman Empire, C. 82 B.C.--A.D. 480: History. Germany, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000. 357.</ref>
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.Template:Citation needed

Sima Zhao quells Zhuge Dan's rebellion, thereby also ending what are known as the Three Rebellions in Shouchun.Template:Citation needed
Sun Xiu succeeds his brother Sun Liang as emperor of the Chinese state of Eastern Wu.Template:Citation needed

Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, is martyred (decapitation).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Pope Sixtus II, bishop of Rome, is martyred.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>