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1998 in the United Kingdom

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1998 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1998 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

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Events

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January

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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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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Publications

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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

February

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Enoch Powell

March

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April

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Dame Mary Cartwright
Linda McCartney

May

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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

See also

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References

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