1998

1998 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1998; MCMXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2751
Armenian calendar	1447; ԹՎ ՌՆԽԷ
Assyrian calendar	6748
Baháʼí calendar	154–155
Balinese saka calendar	1919–1920
Bengali calendar	1404–1405
Berber calendar	2948
British Regnal year	46 Eliz. 2 – 47 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2542
Burmese calendar	1360
Byzantine calendar	7506–7507
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox); 4695 or 4488; — to —; 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger); 4696 or 4489
Coptic calendar	1714–1715
Discordian calendar	3164
Ethiopian calendar	1990–1991
Hebrew calendar	5758–5759
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2054–2055
- Shaka Samvat	1919–1920
- Kali Yuga	5098–5099
Holocene calendar	11998
Igbo calendar	998–999
Iranian calendar	1376–1377
Islamic calendar	1418–1419
Japanese calendar	Heisei 10; (平成１０年)
Javanese calendar	1930–1931
Juche calendar	87
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4331
Minguo calendar	ROC 87; 民國87年
Nanakshahi calendar	530
Thai solar calendar	2541
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 time	883612800 – 915148799

From left to right, top to bottom:

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;
the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania are bombed by Al-Qaeda;
Google is launched;
SwissAir Flight 111 crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia after an in-flight fire;
the 1998 FIFA World Cup is held in France;
protests erupt in Indonesia over the Fall of Suharto, which lead to 1,000 fatalities;
China Airlines Flight 676 crashes upon attempted landing at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 203, the second-deadliest air crash in Taiwan;
Hurricane Mitch at peak intensity as a powerful Category 5 before making landfall on Honduras as a weakening category 1, becoming one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record, killing over 11,000 people in Central America;
Rwanda and Uganda invaded the Democratic Republic of the Congo, triggering the Second Congo War;
the severe destruction of Eschede train disaster, which killed 101 people.

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.

1998 was designated as the International Year of the Ocean.

Gregorian calendar	1998 MCMXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2751
Armenian calendar	1447 ԹՎ ՌՆԽԷ
Assyrian calendar	6748
Baháʼí calendar	154–155
Balinese saka calendar	1919–1920
Bengali calendar	1404–1405
Berber calendar	2948
British Regnal year	46 Eliz. 2 – 47 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2542
Burmese calendar	1360
Byzantine calendar	7506–7507
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4695 or 4488 — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4696 or 4489
Coptic calendar	1714–1715
Discordian calendar	3164
Ethiopian calendar	1990–1991
Hebrew calendar	5758–5759
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2054–2055
- Shaka Samvat	1919–1920
- Kali Yuga	5098–5099
Holocene calendar	11998
Igbo calendar	998–999
Iranian calendar	1376–1377
Islamic calendar	1418–1419
Japanese calendar	Heisei 10 (平成１０年)
Javanese calendar	1930–1931
Juche calendar	87
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4331
Minguo calendar	ROC 87 民國87年
Nanakshahi calendar	530
Thai solar calendar	2541
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 time	883612800 – 915148799