| 458 BC by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 458 BC |
| Ab urbe condita | 296 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -2301 – -2300 |
| Berber calendar | 493 |
| Buddhist calendar | 87 |
| Burmese calendar | -1095 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5051 – 5052 |
| Chinese calendar | [[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2179/2239) — to —
[[Sexagenary cycle|]]年(2180/2240) |
| Coptic calendar | -741 – -740 |
| Ethiopian calendar | -465 – -464 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3303 – 3304 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | -402 – -401 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 2644 – 2645 |
| Holocene calendar | 9543 |
| Iranian calendar | 1079 BP – 1078 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 1112 BH – 1111 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 1876 |
| Thai solar calendar | 86 |
Events
By place
Greece
- Pleistoanax succeeds his father 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 Atenians 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 Leosthenes, 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
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