1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1998th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 998th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1990s decade.

Clockwise from top-left: the 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan; U.S. President Bill Clinton is impeached over the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal; a poster advocates for a "yes" vote on the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, which eventually prevails and ends most of the violence associated with The Troubles; Google is launched; protests erupt in Indonesia over the Fall of Suharto, which lead to 1,000 fatalities; the 1998 FIFA World Cup is held in France; SwissAir Flight 111 crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia after an in-flight fire; the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania are bombed by Al-Qaeda.
Quick Facts
1998 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1998
MCMXCVIII
Ab urbe condita2751
Armenian calendar1447
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Assyrian calendar6748
Baháʼí calendar154–155
Balinese saka calendar1919–1920
Bengali calendar1405
Berber calendar2948
British Regnal year46 Eliz. 2  47 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2542
Burmese calendar1360
Byzantine calendar7506–7507
Chinese calendar丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
4695 or 4488
     to 
戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
4696 or 4489
Coptic calendar1714–1715
Discordian calendar3164
Ethiopian calendar1990–1991
Hebrew calendar5758–5759
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2054–2055
 - Shaka Samvat1919–1920
 - Kali Yuga5098–5099
Holocene calendar11998
Igbo calendar998–999
Iranian calendar1376–1377
Islamic calendar1418–1419
Japanese calendarHeisei 10
(平成10年)
Javanese calendar1930–1931
Juche calendar87
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4331
Minguo calendarROC 87
民國87年
Nanakshahi calendar530
Thai solar calendar2541
Tibetan calendar阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
2124 or 1743 or 971
     to 
阳土虎年
(male Earth-Tiger)
2125 or 1744 or 972
Unix time883612800 – 915148799
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1998 was designated as the International Year of the Ocean.[1]

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Date unknown

Births

January

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Éder Militão
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Aitana Bonmatí
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XXXTentacion

February

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Khalid
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Chappell Roan

March

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Jayson Tatum
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Jack Harlow

April

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Paris Jackson
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Elle Fanning
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Mallory Swanson

May

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Aryna Sabalenka
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Daisy Edgar-Jones
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MrBeast

June

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Michael Porter Jr

July

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Chloe Bailey
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Maya Hawke
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Jaden Smith
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Federico Valverde

August

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Shawn Mendes
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Stefanos Tsitsipas
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Clairo
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Bizarrap

September

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Christian Pulisic
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Trae Young
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Tadej Pogačar
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Trent Alexander-Arnold
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Erin Kellyman
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Cale Makar

October

November

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Achraf Hakimi
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Sofia Kenin

December

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Juice Wrld
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Martin Ødegaard
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Kylian Mbappé
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Latto
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Victor Osimhen
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Hunter Schafer

Deaths

Nobel Prizes

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Fields Medal

References

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