998

Millennium:	1st millennium
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
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

998 in other calendars
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

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Year 998 (CMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

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)

Mahmud of Ghazni wins the Battle of Ghazni and succeeds as the Amir of Ghazni.
Tyre is stormed by the forces of the Fatimid Caliphate, ending a two-year rebellion of its citizens.

A Benedictine abbey is founded at Sherborne.
St. Volodimir, Prince of Kiev Rus (modern Ukraine, Russia and Belarus), baptizes his country