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Events from the year 1998 in the United Kingdom.

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Incumbents

Events

January

February

March

April

May

July

  • 12 July - Three young children are killed in a loyalist arson attack in Ballymoney, Northern Ireland.[6]
  • 31 July
    • Crime and Disorder Act receives Royal Assent. It introduces Anti-Social Behaviour Orders, Sex Offender Orders, Parenting Orders, and 'racially aggravated' offences. It makes it possible for a young person between ten and fourteen to be presumed capable of committing an offence and formally abolishes capital punishment for treason and piracy, the last civilian offences for which the death penalty remained theoretically available.
    • The government announces a total ban on the use of landmines by the British military.[7]

August

September

October

  • 16 October - Police place General Augusto Pinochet, the 83-year-old former dictator of Chile, into house arrest during his medical treatment in Britain at the request of Spain.

November

December

Undated

Publications

Births

Undated

Deaths

References

  1. ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1. 
  2. ^ a b c d e Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. p. 92. ISBN 0-14-102715-0. 
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  4. ^ "1998: Northern Ireland peace deal reached". BBC News. 10 April 1998. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/10/newsid_2450000/2450823.stm. Retrieved 2008-02-13. 
  5. ^ "1998: Leaders welcome 'yes' vote for N Ireland". BBC News. 23 May 1998. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/23/newsid_2504000/2504387.stm. Retrieved 2008-02-13. 
  6. ^ "1998: Children die in Drumcree protests". BBC News. 12 July 1998. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/12/newsid_2500000/2500503.stm. Retrieved 2008-02-13. 
  7. ^ "1998: UK imposes total ban on landmines". BBC News. 31 July 1998. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/31/newsid_2491000/2491991.stm. Retrieved 2008-02-13. 
  8. ^ "1998: Dozens die in Omagh bombing". BBC News. 15 August 1998. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/15/newsid_2496000/2496009.stm. Retrieved 2008-02-13. 
  9. ^ "1998: Real IRA announce ceasefire". BBC News. 8 September 1998. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/8/newsid_2503000/2503633.stm. Retrieved 2008-02-13. 
  10. ^ "1998: Queen's speech spells end for peers". BBC News. 24 November 1998. Archived from the original on 22 January 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/24/newsid_4007000/4007601.stm. Retrieved 2008-02-13. 
  11. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998". http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1998/. Retrieved 2007-11-28. 
  12. ^ "The Nobel Peace Prize 1998". Archived from the original on 25 October 2007. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1998/. Retrieved 2007-11-28. 
  13. ^ "Yemen victims named". BBC News. 29 December 1998. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/244482.stm. Retrieved 2007-08-19. 
  14. ^ "Fields Medallists". Archived from the original on 2007-11-19. http://web.archive.org/web/20071119121851/http://www.mathunion.org/medals/Fields/Prizewinners.html. Retrieved 2007-11-28. 

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