January:
- Diana, Princess of Wales announces she wants a divorce
- Bill Clinton sworn in as 42nd President of the United States of America
February:
- Two year-old James Bulger is murdered by two ten-year-old boys
- A van bomb parked below the World Trade Center explodes, killing six
- Warrington bomb attacks, coordinated by the IRA
March
- Unforgiven wins Best Picture at the 65th Academy Awards
- Further bombings in Warrington by the IRA, killing two
- Tony Bland, a supporter injured in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, is allowed to die
- Brandon Lee is shot while filming The Crow, he later dies in hospital
April:
- Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence murdered
- The Grand National is cancelled after a false start leading to an estimated £75m in refunded bets
- An IRA truck bomb explodes in Bishopsgate destroying St Ethelburga’s church and killing a newspaper photographer
- The government declares an official end to a three-year recession
- Women’s World number 1 Monica Seles is stabbed in the back by a fan of rival Steffi Graf in Hamburg, she would not play again competitively for two years
May:
- Manchester United win the inaugural FA Premier League season, 26 years after their previous top flight title win
June:
- Andrew Wiles presents a proof to Fermat’s Last Theorem (after 356 years of being unproven), in August he discovers an error but will finally solve the theorem the following year
- Concensual homosexual acts are formally decriminalised in the Republic of Ireland
- Shane Warne bowls the “Ball of the Century” to Mike Gatting, Australia go on to win the Ashes 4-0 in England
August:
- Michael Jackson is first accused of child sexual abuse
September:
- The UK Independence Party is formed
- The British National Party wins its first council seat
November:
- The England national football team fail to qualify for the 1994 World Cup in the USA, Graham Taylor subsequently resigns as manager
- The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union
- The Railways Act 1993 is passed, setting out the privatisation of British Rail
December:
- Pablo Escobar is killed by police
- Doom is released
Other:
- Trainspotting is first published
- Jurassic Park is the highest grossing film of the year, $915m worldwide
- Meat Loaf’s “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” is the biggest-selling single of the year
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