58 BC

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

58 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	58 BC LVII BC
Ab urbe condita	696
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 266
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy XII Auletes, 23
Ancient Greek era	180th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4693
Bengali calendar	−650
Berber calendar	893
Buddhist calendar	487
Burmese calendar	−695
Byzantine calendar	5451–5452
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 2639 or 2579     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 2640 or 2580
Coptic calendar	−341 – −340
Discordian calendar	1109
Ethiopian calendar	−65 – −64
Hebrew calendar	3703–3704
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−1 – 0
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3044–3045
Holocene calendar	9943
Iranian calendar	679 BP – 678 BP
Islamic calendar	700 BH – 699 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2276
Minguo calendar	1969 before ROC 民前1969年
Seleucid era	254/255 AG
Thai solar calendar	485–486

Year 58 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Piso and Gabinius (or, less frequently, year 696 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 58 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

• Consuls: Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus and Aulus Gabinius.
• Publius Clodius Pulcher, Roman tribune, institutes a monthly corn dole for poor Romans, and exiles Cicero from the city.
• Cyprus becomes a Roman province.
• First year of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars:
  • Caesar becomes a provincial governor (Proconsul) and leads a Roman army (4 Roman legion; Legio VII, Legio VIII, Legio IX and the famous Legio X) into Gaul. For auxiliaries he organised ± 3,000 Balearic slingers and Cretan archers into cohorts.
  • Caesar builds an 19-mile earthwork, complete with fortifications and watchtowers, between Lake Geneva and the Jura Mountains.
  • June – Caesar defeats the migrating Helvetii in the Battle of the Arar.
  • July – Caesar decisively defeats the Helvetii in the Battle of Bibracte.
  • September – Caesar decisively defeats the Suebi led by Ariovistus in the Battle of Vosges.

Egypt

• Berenice IV becomes queen of Egypt after temporarily dethroning her father, Ptolemy XII Auletes.

Asia

• Base year of the Vikrama Era, founded by Vikrama, king of Ujjain in India.
• Jumong becomes the 7th ruler of Buyeo.

Births

• Livia, second wife of Augustus Caesar (d. AD 29)

Deaths

• Go Museo Dangun, 6th ruler of Bukbuyeo
• Ptolemy of Cyprus, last Hellenistic king of Cyprus