458 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	6th century BC – 5th century BC – 4th century BC
Decades:	480s BC  470s BC  460s BC  – 450s BC –  440s BC  430s BC  420s BC
Years:	461 BC 460 BC 459 BC – 458 BC – 457 BC 456 BC 455 BC

458 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	458 BC
Ab urbe condita	296
Ancient Egypt era	XXVII dynasty, 68
- Pharaoh	Artaxerxes I of Persia, 8
Ancient Greek era	80th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4293
Bengali calendar	−1050
Berber calendar	493
Buddhist calendar	87
Burmese calendar	−1095
Byzantine calendar	5051–5052
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse) 2239 or 2179     — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 2240 or 2180
Coptic calendar	−741 – −740
Discordian calendar	709
Ethiopian calendar	−465 – −464
Hebrew calendar	3303–3304
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−401 – −400
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2644–2645
Holocene calendar	9543
Iranian calendar	1079 BP – 1078 BP
Islamic calendar	1112 BH – 1111 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1876
Minguo calendar	2369 before ROC 民前2369年
Thai solar calendar	85–86

Year 458 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rutilus and Carvetus (or, less frequently, year 296 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 458 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

Greece

• Pleistoanax succeeds Pleistarchus as king of Sparta.
• Pericles continues Ephialtes' democratising activities by making the archonship a paid office and the lower class of Athenian citizens eligible to hold the office.
• The Athenians start constructing the Long Walls to protect the route from their city to the port city of Piraeus.
• Aegina joins the Peloponnesian alliance, but their combined fleet is defeated by the Athenians in the Battle of Aegina. The Athenians, under the command of Leocrates, land on the island of Aegina and besiege and defeat the city. Aegina is forced to pay tribute to Athens.

Roman Republic

• The Roman general Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus is summoned by the Roman Senate to defend the city from attack by the approaching Aequi. He is named dictator of Rome for six months. He goes on to defeat the enemy in a single day at the Battle of Mons Algidus and celebrates a triumph in Rome. Sixteen days after the battle, he resigns his dictatorship and returns to his farm.

By topic

Literature

• The Athenian playwright Aeschylus completes his trilogy The Oresteia (which comprise Agamemnon, Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers) and The Eumenides).

Births

Deaths

• Pleistarchus, King of Sparta since 480 BC

References