1998

1998 is a year in the 20th century.

Events

• February 7: Robert Gailen Orison is issued a Class D driver's license for the state of Illinois. — (Orison)
• A piece of petrified wood from the cross of Christ's crucifixion is found in Damascus, Syria and is put away for safe keeping by the Millennium Group. — (Owls,  Roosters)
• In Blackwood County, North Texas, a boy named Stevie falls into a pit while digging holes in the ground with his three friends. In the pit, which is actually a cave, Stevie finds the bones of two primitive men who died in 35,000 B.C.. He also finds a puddle of black oil that enters his body and paralyses him.
• Later that day, Fire Captain Miles Cooles leads a failed attempt to find Stevie. He sends four men - T.C., Danny, Glenn and Sal - into the cave. Although the men are never recovered, a fleet of white Freightliner trucks and a helicopter carrying a doctor named Ben Bronschweig later arrive at the scene. — (The X-Files: Fight the Future)
• A British soldier falls 4,500 feet when his parachute fails to open. He survives with a broken rib. — (The Goldberg Variation)

Notes

A legend in The X-Files Movie reads "present day". Since the movie was released in 1998, the legend could be interpreted as meaning that the movie's events also occurred in 1998.

Episodes

• The X-Files:
  • Emily
  • Kitsunegari
  • Schizogeny
  • Chinga
  • Kill Switch
  • Bad Blood
  • Patient X
  • The Red and the Black
  • Mind's Eye
  • All Souls
  • The Pine Bluff Variant
  • Folie a Deux
  • The End
  • The X-Files Movie
  • The Beginning
  • Agua Mala
  • The Rain King
  • Hollywood A.D. (flashback)
  • Drive
  • Triangle
  • Dreamland I
  • Dreamland II
  • Terms of Endearment
  • How the Ghosts Stole Christmas

• Millennium:
  • Goodbye, Charlie
  • Luminary
  • The Mikado
  • The Pest House
  • Owls
  • Roosters
  • Siren
  • In Arcadia Ego
  • Anamnesis
  • A Room With No View
  • Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me
  • The Fourth Horseman
  • The Time is Now
  • The Innocents
  • Exegesis
  • TEOTWAWKI
  • Closure
  • ...Thirteen Years Later
  • Skull and Bones
  • Through a Glass Darkly
  • Human Essence
  • Omerta

1997

Timeline

1999