98 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	120s BC  110s BC  100s BC  – 90s BC –  80s BC  70s BC  60s BC
Years:	101 BC 100 BC 99 BC – 98 BC – 97 BC 96 BC 95 BC

98 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	98 BC XCVII BC
Ab urbe condita	656
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 226
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy X Alexander, 10
Ancient Greek era	170th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4653
Bengali calendar	−690
Berber calendar	853
Buddhist calendar	447
Burmese calendar	−735
Byzantine calendar	5411–5412
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse) 2599 or 2539     — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 2600 or 2540
Coptic calendar	−381 – −380
Discordian calendar	1069
Ethiopian calendar	−105 – −104
Hebrew calendar	3663–3664
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−41 – −40
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3004–3005
Holocene calendar	9903
Iranian calendar	719 BP – 718 BP
Islamic calendar	741 BH – 740 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2236
Minguo calendar	2009 before ROC 民前2009年
Seleucid era	214/215 AG
Thai solar calendar	445–446

Year 98 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Nepos and Didius (or, less frequently, year 656 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 98 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

• Consuls: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos and Titus Didius
• The Roman Senate passes a resolution forbidding human sacrifice.
• The Senate passes the Lex Caecilia Didia which bans omnibus bills.

Births

• Nigidius Figulus, Roman philosopher (probable date) (d. 45 BC)
• Terentia, first wife of Cicero (d. AD 4).

Deaths

• Emperor Kaika of Japan (probable date)