1998 in Luxembourg

yearbox
in? = in Luxembourg
cp = 19th Century
c = 20th century
cf = 21st century
yp1 = 1995
yp2 = 1996
yp3 = 1997
year = 1998
ya1 = 1999
ya2 = 2000
ya3 = 2001
dp3 = 1960s
dp2 = 1970s
dp1 = 1980s
d = 1990s
dn1 = 2000s
dn2 = 2010s
dn3 = 2020s

Incumbents

Events

January - March

* 30 January – Marc Fischbach and Johny Lahure resign from the government, and are replaced by Luc Frieden and Georges Wohlfart.

April - June

* 28 April – Grand Duke Jean declares his eldest son, Hereditary Grand Duke Henri, to be his Lieutenant Representative.
* 23 May – CS Grevenmacher win the Luxembourg Cup, beating FC Avenir Beggen 2-0 in the final.
* 1 June – The Banque Centrale du Luxembourg is established.
* 14 June – The United States' Lance Armstrong wins the 1998 Tour de Luxembourg.

July - September

October - December

* 30 August – SES Astra launches its eighth satellite, Astra 2A.
* 31 December – The exchange rate between the Luxembourgian franc and the ECU at close of trading is 40.3399. This rate is then fixed as the level at which Luxembourg would join the Euro.

Births

* 4 March – Prince Paul Louis of Nassau

Deaths

* 28 February – Elsy Jacobs, cyclist
* 30 September – Émile Krieps, politician and resistance leader
* 17 November – Ida Faber-Hoesdorff, artist