328 notable events from 1998. Page 1 of 4.
- Natascha Kampusch
Mar 2, 1998 · Austria
- Kosovo War
Feb 27, 1998–Jun 11, 1999 · Kosovo
- Swissair Flight 111
Sep 2, 1998 · Canada
- Disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley
Mar 24, 1998 · United States
- Beasts of Satan
Jan 1, 1998–Jan 1, 2004 · Italy
- Murder of James Byrd Jr.
Jun 7, 1998 · United States
- Murder of Nadia Roccia
Mar 14, 1998 · Italy
- Wakayama poison curry case
Jul 25, 1998 · Japan
- Eschede train disaster
Jun 3, 1998 · Germany
- Derrick Todd Lee
Apr 18, 1998–Mar 3, 2003 · United States
- Josh Phillips (murderer)
Nov 3, 1998 · —
- Omagh bombing
Aug 15, 1998 · United Kingdom
- 1998 Russian financial crisis
Aug 17, 1998–Nov 15, 1998 · —
- Disappearance of Tom and Eileen Lonergan
Jan 25, 1998 · New Caledonia
- Rome Statute
Jul 17, 1998 · Italy
- 1998 United States embassy bombings
Aug 7, 1998 · Kenya
- Juana Barraza
Jan 1, 1998–Jan 1, 2006 · Mexico
- 1998 Cavalese cable car crash
Feb 3, 1998 · Italy
- Kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch
Mar 2, 1998–Aug 23, 2006 · Austria
- Hurricane Mitch
Oct 22, 1998–Nov 9, 1998 · Honduras
- Charles Victor Thompson
Apr 30, 1998 · —
- Murders of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope
Jan 1, 1998 · New Zealand
- 1998 Thurston High School shooting
May 20, 1998 · United States
- China Airlines Flight 676
Feb 16, 1998 · Taiwan
- May 1998 Indonesia riots
May 4, 1998–May 15, 1998 · Indonesia
- 1998–2002 Argentine great depression
1998–2002 · Argentina
- 1998 Westside Middle School shooting
Mar 24, 1998 · United States
- Natasha Ryan
Aug 31, 1998 · —
- Murder of Tristan Brübach
Mar 26, 1998 · Germany
- Kidnapping of Kamiyah Mobley
Jul 10, 1998 · United States
- Poso riots
Dec 25, 1998–Dec 20, 2001 · Indonesia
- Murder of Katarzyna Zowada
Nov 12, 1998 · Poland
- Thai Airways International Flight 261
Dec 11, 1998 · Thailand
- Murder of Julie Jensen
Dec 3, 1998 · United States
- Death of Nicky Verstappen
Aug 10, 1998 · Netherlands
- Murder of Kyle Dinkheller
Jan 12, 1998 · United States
- War crimes in the Kosovo War
Jan 1, 1998–Jan 1, 1999 · Kosovo
- Yoshitomo Hori
Jan 1, 1998–Jan 1, 2007 · —
- Dwight Eaglin
Jan 1, 1998–Jan 1, 2003 · —
- Yevgeny Chuplinsky
Jan 1, 1998–Jan 1, 2005 · Russian Federation
- Fall of Suharto
May 21, 1998 · Indonesia
- Operation Infinite Reach
Aug 20, 1998 · Sudan
- 1998 bombing of Iraq
Dec 16, 1998–Dec 19, 1998 · Iraq
- Festina affair
Jul 8, 1998–Jul 17, 2001 · France
- Cebu Pacific Flight 387
Feb 2, 1998 · Philippines
- Murder of Arlene Fraser
Apr 28, 1998 · United Kingdom
- Disappearance of Rui Pedro Teixeira Mendonça
Mar 4, 1998 · —
- Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
from Dec 30, 1998 · Yemen
- January 1998 North American ice storm
Jan 1998 · Canada
- Proteus Airlines Flight 706
Jul 30, 1998 · France
- Rolex watch murder
Apr 20, 1998 · Singapore
- Suzanne Basso
Aug 25, 1998 · —
- Kurume nurse serial insurance fraud murder case
Jan 24, 1998 · Japan
- Wesley Ira Purkey
Jan 22, 1998 · United States
- Ministry of Finance entertainment corruption scandal
1998 · Japan
- Silk–Miller police murders
Aug 16, 1998 · Australia
- Julio Pérez Silva
Jan 1, 1998–Jan 1, 2001 · Chile
- Kaboni Savage
Jan 1, 1998–Jan 1, 2004 · —
- Attack on Prekaz
Mar 5, 1998–Mar 7, 1998 · Kosovo
- Jeffrey Hutchinson
Sep 11, 1998 · —
- Murder of Felicia Gayle
Aug 11, 1998 · United States
- Ise woman journalist disappearance case
Nov 24, 1998 · Japan
- Gunma family three-person murder case
Jan 14, 1998 · Japan
- Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet
Oct 10, 1998 · United Kingdom
- Willie Crain Jr.
Jan 1, 1998 · —
- Propair Flight 420
Jun 18, 1998 · Canada
- Red Light District Orderlies
Jan 1, 1998–Jan 1, 1999 · —
- Hekinan pachinko parlor manager couple murder case
Jun 28, 1998 · Japan
- 1998 Coimbatore bombings
Feb 14, 1998 · India
- Hurricane Georges
Sep 15, 1998–Oct 1, 1998 · —
- Murder of Lynsey Quy
Dec 16, 1998 · United Kingdom
- Assassination of Claude Érignac
Feb 6, 1998 · France
- Wakayama curry-poisoning incident
Jul 25, 1998 · Japan
- Murder of Monica Calò
Jul 14, 1998 · Italy
- Estermann case
May 4, 1998 · Holy See (Vatican City State)
- Hafnium controversy
from 1998 · —
- 1998 Sokcho submarine incident
Jun 22, 1998 · South Korea
- Belize Ripper
Jan 1, 1998–Jan 1, 2000 · Belize
- Leonard Fraser
Dec 28, 1998–Apr 22, 1999 · Australia
- 1998 abduction of foreign engineers in Chechnya
Dec 8, 1998 · Russian Federation
- Guinea-Bissau Civil War
Jun 7, 1998–May 10, 1999 · Guinea-Bissau
- Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
from 1998 · Nigeria
- Disappearance of Suzanne Lyall
Mar 2, 1998 · United States
- Tochigi female teacher stabbing murder case
Jan 28, 1998 · Japan
- Taberon Honie
Jan 1, 1998 · —
- Kawasaki Kyodo Hospital case
Nov 1998 · Japan
- Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory
Aug 20, 1998 · Sudan
- Florinda Donner
Jan 1, 1998 · —
- Puntland–Somaliland dispute
from 1998 · Somalia
- Murder of Lev Rokhlin
Jul 3, 1998 · Russian Federation
- Persecution of Hazaras
Aug 1, 1998 · Afghanistan
- 1998 Sarno and Quindici landslides
May 5, 1998 · Italy
- Shazneen Tasnim Rahman murder
Apr 23, 1998 · Bangladesh
- Doñana disaster
Apr 25, 1998 · Spain
- Wye River Memorandum
from Nov 2, 1998 · —
- Kitakyushu former fishermen's union chairman shooting case
Feb 18, 1998 · Japan
- Murder of Rukhsana Naz
Mar 26, 1998 · —
- 1998 Central Florida tornado outbreak
1998 · United States
- Philippine Airlines Flight 137
Mar 22, 1998 · Philippines
- Juan Covington
Jan 1, 1998–Jan 1, 2005 · —