| 1st January 1992 | Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt, replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. |
| 7th February 1992 | The European Union is founded following the signing of the Maastricht Treaty. |
| 8th February 1992 | The opening ceremony for the 1992 Winter Olympics is held in Albertville, France. |
| 10th February 1992 | Boxer Mike Tyson is convicted of raping Desiree Washington. |
| 20th February 1992 | The English FA Premier League is officially formed. |
| 1st March 1992 | After a majority of the Bosniak and Bosnian Croat communities vote for Bosnian independence, Serb snipers fire on civilians in the Sarajevo shooting. The first victims of the Bosnian War are a Serb groom and his father. |
| 9th April 1992 | The Conservative Party, led by John Major, is re-elected in the 1992 general election. |
| 12th April 1992 | Disneyland Paris officially opens under the name "EuroDisney". |
| 20th April 1992 | The “Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert“, held at Wembley Stadium, is televised live to over one billion people and raises millions of dollars for AIDS research. |
| 27th April 1992 | Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons. |
| 3rd June 1992 | Four nuclear missiles are launched into the Pacific Ocean. |
| 26th June 1992 | Denmark beats Germany 2-0 to win the 1992 UEFA European Football Championship in Sweden. |
| 25th July 1992 | The 1992 Summer Olympics open in Barcelona, Spain. |
| 10th August 1992 | The government bans the Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary organisation that had been legal for twenty years. |
| 16th September 1992 | Black Wednesday: The Pound Sterling and the Italian Lira are forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. |
| 20th November 1992 | A fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, causing over £50 million worth of damage. |
| 4th December 1992 | U.S. military forces land in Somalia. |