1998 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1998 in the United Kingdom.

1998 in the United Kingdom
Other years
1996 | 1997 | 1998 (1998) | 1999 | 2000
Countries of the United Kingdom
England | Northern Ireland | Scotland | Wales
Popular culture

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  • October – Ford launches its new Focus range of small family hatchbacks, saloons and estates which will eventually replace the long-running Escort although that model would continue until the year 2000 and the van model lasting until 2002.
  • 16 October – Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet: Police place General Augusto Pinochet, the 83-year-old former dictator of Chile, into house arrest during his medical treatment in the UK at the request of Spain.
  • 17 October – Actress Joan Hickson dies aged 92 of a stroke in a hospital at Colchester, Essex, six years after her final television appearance as Miss Marple.
  • 27 October – Ron Davies resigns as Secretary of State for Wales, citing "an error of judgement" in agreeing to go for what he said was a meal with a man he had met while walking on Clapham Common in London, which is a well known gay meeting place, and subsequently being mugged.
  • 28 October – The Poet Laureate Ted Hughes dies of cancer in a hospital in London, aged 68.

November

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December

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Date unknown

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Births

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Ronan Parke
 
Trent Alexander-Arnold
 
Central Cee
 
Erin Kellyman
 
Jack Carroll
 
Jasmine Armfield

Deaths

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January

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John Wells

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Enoch Powell

March

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April

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Dame Mary Cartwright
 
Linda McCartney
 
J. S. Roskell

June

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Reg Smythe

July

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August

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Alan Walsh

September

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October

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Ted Hughes

November

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Mary Millar

December

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Brian Stonehouse
 
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

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References

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