| 20th January 1993 | Bill Clinton succeeds George H.W. Bush as the 42nd President of the United States. |
| 24th February 1993 | Bobby Moore, footballer and captain of England’s World Cup winning side (b. 1941) dies after a brief battle with bowel cancer. |
| 26th February 1993 | In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Centre explodes, killing six people and injuring over 1,000. |
| 20th March 1993 | An IRA bomb explodes in Warrington Town Centre and kills two children, Jonathan Ball and Tim Parry. |
| 16th April 1993 | Srebrenica falls in the Bosnian War. |
| 22nd April 1993 | Eighteen year-old Stephen Lawrence is stabbed to death in London in an alleged racist attack. |
| 30th April 1993 | The World Wide Web is born at CERN. |
| 30th April 1993 | Tennis star Monica Seles is stabbed in the back during a change-over in the Hamburg quarter-finals. Günter Parche, an obsessed fan of Steffi Graf, is later convicted of the crime, but escapes a jail term on the grounds of insanity. Monica Seles is traumatised by the incident and does not step foot on a tennis court for over two years. |
| 26th July 1993 | Miguel Indurain wins the 1993 Tour de France. |
| 17th August 1993 | The public is allowed inside Buckingham Palace for the first time. |
| 13th September 1993 | Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington D.C. after signing a peace accord. |
| 19th October 1993 | Benazir Bhutto becomes the first woman elected to lead a post-colonial Muslim state in Pakistan. |
| 31st October 1993 | American actor River Phoenix (b. 1970) dies from a drug overdose at “The Viper Room”, a nightclub owned by fellow actor Johnny Depp. |
| 5th November 1993 | Parliament passes the Railways Act, setting out the procedures for privatisation of British Rail. |
| 12th November 1993 | Marine dumping of radioactive waste is outlawed at the London Convention. |
| 28th November 1993 | The Observer reveals that a channel of communications has existed between the IRA and the British government, despite the government's persistent denials. |
| 2nd December 1993 | Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, head of the Medellín Cartel, is gunned down in Medellín when police try to arrest him. |
| 15th December 1993 | The United Kingdom commits itself to the search for an answer to the problems of Northern Ireland. |