Events
- February 24 - The Criminal Cases Review Commission overturns the murder charge of Mahmood Hussein Mattan, who was executed in 1952 for killing a Cardiff shopkeeper.
- February - Britain's first official register of historic landscapes is published by Cadw. It lists 36 landscapes in Wales of outstanding historic interest.
- March 6 - Flintshire Bridge is officially opened.
- April 8-9 - Torrential rain over eastern Wales results in widespread flooding.
- April 13 - Montgomeryshire MP Lembit Öpik is seriously injured in a paragliding accident in his constituency.
- June - The Arts Council of Wales publishes its consultation paper Building A Creative Society.
- Ron Davies is appointed to the highest order of the Gorsedd of the Bards at the 1998 National Eisteddfod in Bridgend
- July 31 - The Government of Wales Act 1998, that will establish a devolved Welsh Assembly, receives its Royal Assent.
- September 19 - Ron Davies is elected in preference to Rhodri Morgan as Labour's candidate for First Secretary of the Assembly.
- October 22-31 - Heavy rainfall across Wales results in river levels rising to warning levels. Flood plains are inundated and there is extensive flooding of houses and other property.
- October 27 - Ron Davies resigns as Secretary of State for Wales after being mugged in an incident on Clapham Common, following what he described as an "error of judgment".
- November 18 - Jon Owen Jones, MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales, announces that the Environment Agency has been asked for a report on the October floods.
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