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1998

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1960s  1970s  1980s  – 1990s –  2000s  2010s  2020s
Years: 1995 1996 199719981999 2000 2001
1998 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1998
MCMXCVIII
Ab urbe condita2751
Armenian calendar1447
ԹՎ ՌՆԽԷ
Assyrian calendar6748
Bahá'í 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(Fire Ox)
4694 or 4634
    — to —
戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
4695 or 4635
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

1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday in 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.

New rubles
Frozen trees during the winter storm

February

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The Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge
The US Embassy in Kenya after the bombing

September

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Vessels searching for Swissair Flight 111 off Nova Scotia
Flooding in Nicaragua caused by Hurricane Mitch

November

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December

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Sonny Bono
Vladimir Prelog

February

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Enoch Powell
George H. Hitchings
Lloyd Bridges
Pol Pot
Octavio Paz
Konstantinos Karamanlis
Frank Sinatra
Sōsuke Uno
Phil Hartman
Barry Goldwater
Alan Shepard
Frederick Reines

September

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Akira Kurosawa
Yang Shangkun

November

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December

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Martin Rodbell

Nobel Prizes

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Movies released

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Hit songs

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New books

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References

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  2. "International Space Station - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia".