1992 in Italy

Incumbents

• President of Italy: Francesco Cossiga Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
• Prime Minister of Italy: Giuliano Amato

  Events

• 13 January – The first edition of TG5, Canale 5's news program, was broadcast in Italy.
• 29 February – Sanremo: at the 42nd edition of the Italian Song Festival Luca Barbarossa wins with Portami a ballare.
• 5 April – political elections: the Quadripartite obtains an absolute majority with 48.55% of the votes, but the growth of the Lega Nord and the first investigations into bribes make it difficult to form a stable government.
• 31 October – the Catholic Church rehabilitates the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, convicted in 1633.

  Births

• 12 September – Mahmood, singer
• 27 October – Stephan El Shaarawy, footballer
• 5 November – Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
• 24 December – Giuseppe Durato, manga artist

  Deaths

• 3 March – Lella Lombardi, racing driver
• 8 April – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born scientist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 23 May – Giovanni Falcone, magistrate, assassinated, car bomb.
• 19 July – Paolo Borsellino, magistrate, assassination by car bomb
• 29 November – Emilio Pucci, fashion designer and politician