998
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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 960s 970s 980s – 990s – 1000s 1010s 1020s |
| Years: | 995 996 997 – 998 – 999 1000 1001 |
| 998 by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 998 CMXCVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1751 |
| Armenian calendar | 447 ԹՎ ՆԽԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5748 |
| Bengali calendar | 405 |
| Berber calendar | 1948 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1542 |
| Burmese calendar | 360 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6506–6507 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 3694 or 3634 — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3695 or 3635 |
| Coptic calendar | 714–715 |
| Discordian calendar | 2164 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 990–991 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4758–4759 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1054–1055 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 920–921 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4099–4100 |
| Holocene calendar | 10998 |
| Iranian calendar | 376–377 |
| Islamic calendar | 387–389 |
| Japanese calendar | Chōtoku 4 (長徳４年) |
| Julian calendar | 998 CMXCVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3331 |
| Minguo calendar | 914 before ROC 民前914年 |
| Seleucid era | 1309/1310 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1540–1541 |
Year 998 (CMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- Otto III retakes the city of Rome and reinstates his cousin, Pope Gregory V, after mutilating and blinding his rival, Antipope John XVI.
- St. Volodimir of Rus founds (or, according to some documents, gives his name to) the city of Volodimir of Wolyn, future capital of the kingdom of Ruthenia Minor (Halych-Wolyn Rus)
Asia
- Mahmud of Ghazni wins the Battle of Ghazni and succeeds as the Amir of Ghazni.
- June – Tyre is stormed by the forces of the Fatimid Caliphate, ending a two-year rebellion of its citizens.
- 19 July – The Fatimid army under Jaysh ibn Samsama defeats and kills the Byzantine general Damian Dalassenos at the Battle of Apamea.
By topic
Religion
- A Benedictine abbey is founded at Sherborne.
- St. Volodimir, Prince of Kiev Rus (modern Ukraine, Russia and Belarus), baptizes his country
Births
Deaths
- Abu'l-Wafa, Iranian mathematician
- July 19 – Damian Dalassenos, Byzantine duke of Antioch
