The year 598 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 156 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 598 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.

• Jehoiachin succeeds Jehoiakim as king of Judah.
• The traditional date for the foundation of Kamarina by settlers from Syracuse.^[1]

• The birth of Ma'add ibn Adnan an ancestor of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.

• Jehoiakim, king of Judah