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| 1993, Feb. 11 |
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| Prime Minister Major announced to the House of Commons that the Queen would be charged personal income taxes and capital gains taxes. | 1 |
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| March 8 |
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| Prime Minister Major suffered a political setback when Labour and Liberal Democrat members of Parliament won approval of an amendment to the bill to ratify the Maastricht Treaty on European Union (See Dec. 11). The amendment had the result of slowing down approval of the treaty. | 2 |
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| March 29 |
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| John Treshman and his Rescue America group, plus its British supporters, organized a series of anti-abortion protests in London and Birmingham, resulting in 21 arrests. | 3 |
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| May 17 |
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| In the most conflictive labor dispute since the 1981–85 miners' strike, 38 demonstrators were arrested outside the U.S.-owned Timex Electronics plant in Dundee. Timex staff had been dismissed after striking on Jan. 29 and had been replaced by nonunion employees. On May 28, the International Labor Organization called for the United Kingdom to extend explicit protection against the blacklisting of any worker. | 4 |
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| May 26 |
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| The High Court ruled that British Coal could in fact close any of the ten pits it had attempted to shut down in October 1992. British Coal offered 14 other pits for licensing to private individuals. | 5 |
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| June |
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| A series of revelations about alleged improprieties in the funding of the ruling Conservative Party caused a scandal in the public media. | 6 |
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| July 23 |
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| Prime Minister Major won a vote of confidence in the House of Commons (339 to 299) for his handling of the Maastricht Treaty. The vote finalized the legislative ratification after a year and a half of debate. | 7 |
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| Aug. 8 |
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| The Home Office announced that procedures used in deportation cases that required arrests would be reviewed, as a result of the death of a 40-year-old Jamaican woman in a struggle with police officers in her home during a predawn raid. | 8 |
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| Nov |
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| The British government revealed that it had been engaged in secret negotiations with the IRA for several months. This was followed (Dec. 15) by a joint British-Irish offer to negotiate openly with the IRA on the status of Northern Ireland, if the IRA would agree to renounce violence. | 9 |
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