1992 AD

• February 7 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, founding the European Union.
• February 8 – The opening ceremony for the 1992 Winter Olympics is held in Albertville, France.
• March 1 – The first victims of the Bosnian War are a Serb bridegroom’s father and an Orthodox priest in a Sarajevo shooting. In the Bosnian independence referendum, held from February 29 to March 1 and boycotted by Bosnian Serbs, the majority of the Bosniak and Bosnian Croat communities have voted for Bosnia-Herzegovina‘s independence.
• March 12 – The tram accident at Vasaplatsen in Gothenburg
• March 23 – Sierra Leone Civil War begins
• April 5 – Bosnian War: Serb troops, following a mass rebellion of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Bosnian declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, besiege the city of Sarajevo.
• April 29 – Los Angeles riots: The acquittal of four police officers in the Rodney King beating criminal trial triggers massive rioting in Los Angeles. The riots will last for six days resulting in 63 deaths and over $1 billion in damages before order is restored by the military.
• July 25–August 9 – The 1992 Summer Olympics are held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
• November 3 – In the 1992 United States presidential election, Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton defeats Republican President George H. W. Bush and Independent Ross Perot.

1993 AD

• January 1 – Czechoslovakia ceases to exist, as the Czech Republic and Slovakia separate in the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia.
• February 26 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six people and injuring over one thousand.
• December 31 – Georgian Civil War ends
• April 19 – Waco siege: A 51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ends with a fire that kills 76 people, including David Koresh.
• May 24 – Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia.
• June 25 – Kim Campbell becomes the 19th, and first female, Prime Minister of Canada.
• August 25 – The Sámi Parliament holds its first meeting. The Thing shall “monitor issues relating to Sami culture in Sweden”.
• September 13 – Oslo I Accord: Following initially secret talks from earlier in the year, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington, D.C. after signing a peace accord.
• November 1 – The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
• December 2 – Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is gunned down by police.
• December 16 – Macedonia becomes independent from Yugoslavia.

1994 AD

• February 25 – Israeli Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank; he kills 29 Muslims before worshippers beat him to death.
• April 7 – July 19 – Rwandan genocide
• April 26 – Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan, becomes the 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
• May 6 – The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers more than seven years to complete, officially opens between England and France; it will enable passengers to travel by rail between the two countries in 35 minutes.
• May 12 – First Nagorno-Karabakh War ends
• June 17
  • NFL star O. J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in a white Ford Bronco. The low-speed chase ends at Simpson’s Brentwood, Los Angeles mansion, where he surrenders.
  • The 1994 FIFA World Cup starts in the United States.
• July 17 – Brazil wins the 1994 FIFA World Cup, defeating Italy 3–2 in a penalty shootout in the final (full-time 0–0).
• September 18 – In The  Swedish general election, Ingvar Carlsson defeat Carl Bildt
• September 28 – The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
• October 1 – Palau gains independence from the United Nations Trusteeship Council.
• December 4 – The Stureplan murders
• December 11 – First Chechen War: Russian president Boris Yeltsin orders troops into Chechnya.

1995 AD

• January 1 – Austria, Finland and Sweden join the European Union.
• January 17 – The 6.9 Great Hanshin earthquake strikes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture of Japan with a maximum Shindo of 7, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced.
• April 19 – Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people, including eight federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and 680 are wounded by a bomb set off by Timothy
• August 24 – Windows 95 is launched by Microsoft.
• October 3 – Murder trial of O. J. Simpson: Former American Football star O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of double murder in a criminal trial for the deaths of former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
• November 4 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
• December 14 – The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris, officially ending the Bosnian War.

1996 AD

• July 19 – The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States/August 4 – The 1996 Summer Olympics conclude.
• September 19 – The American Space Shuttle Atlantis Docks with the Russian Space station Mir.
• November 5 – 1996 United States presidential election: Incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton defeats his Republican challenger, Bob Dole and Reform Party candidate Ross Perot.
• December 13 – Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan is elected by the United Nations Security Council the next Secretary-General of the United Nations.

1997 AD

• Zuban invasion of New York City in Planet Earth for the next 1003 years. (Alternate First)
• January 1 – Malmöhus County and Kristianstad County are merged into Skåne County
• January 25–April 15 – Albania suffers severe riots and teeters on the brink of civil war
• May 23 – The landslide in Vagnhärad: Five villas in Vagnhärad slide into the Trosaån. 33 houses are being emptied due to continued landslide risk
• May 1 – Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, as the Labour Party wins the 1997 United Kingdom general election and returns to government for the first time in 18 years.
• July 1 – The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China.
• August 31 – Death of Diana, Princess of Wales: Diana, Princess of Wales, is taken to a hospital after a car accident shortly after midnight, in the Pont de l’Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 4:00 am.
• October 2 – The EU’s new “constitution” the Treaty of Amsterdam is signed
• October 27 – Stock market declines trigger the Asian financial crisis.
• December 1 – The Höga Kusten Bridge is inaugurated north of Härnösand in Sweden, and will be Sweden’s longest suspension bridge
• December 19 – The movie Titanic has premiered in cinemas.

1998 AD

• January 1 – The Västra Götaland County is formed by a merger of the more than 300-year-old counties of Skaraborg, Älvsborg County and Gothenburg County and Bohus County. However, two of Skaraborg County’s municipalities, Habo municipalities and Mullsjö municipalities, were transferred to Jönköping County.
• January 17 – The Drudge Report breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton‘s alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives‘ impeachment of him.
• February 7–22 – The 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan.
• April 10 – Good Friday Agreement: An hour after the end of the talks deadline, the Belfast Agreement is signed between the Irish and British governments and most Northern Ireland political parties, with the notable exception of the Democratic Unionist Party.
• June 3 – Eschede train disaster: an Intercity-Express high-speed train derails between Hanover and Hamburg, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
• June 10–July 12 – The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France: France beats Brazil 3–0 in the FIFA World Cup Final.
• September 20 – In The 1998 Swedish general election. Göran Persson Wins
• 7 October – Oslo‘s new airport Gardermoen is inaugurated.
• October 30 – Gothenburg discothèque fire
• 6 December – Gävle is hit by a violent snowstorm. Schools are closed and residents are asked to stay indoors.

1999 AD

• April – Digital terrestrial television was launched in Sweden
• April 1 – Nunavut, an Inuit homeland, is created from the eastern portion of the Northwest Territories to become Canada’s third territory.
• April 20 – Columbine High School massacre:
• June 10 – Kosovo War and NATO bombing of Yugoslavia: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Yugoslav forces from Kosovo.
• June 10-13 – European Parliament election, turnout is record low in several countries, for example Sweden. The Liberal People’s Party is reaping successes that are considered to be due to Marit Paulsen
• August – The gay, bi and trans festival Stockholm Pride is organized for the first time.
• December 20 – Handover of Macau from the Portuguese Republic to the People’s Republic of China after 442 years of Portuguese rule in the settlement.
• December 31 – Boris Yeltsin resigns as president of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting president.