1902

1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Tuesdayof the 13-day-slower Julian calendar. The year 1902 followed on 1901 and preceded 1903.

In the world

 * January
 * In France, Alfred Loisy writes L'évangile et l'Eglise, which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis.
 * 1 - The first college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena.
 * 8 - A train collision in the New York Central Railroad's Park Avenue Tunnel kills 17, injures 38, and leads to increased demand for electric trains.
 * 25 - A snowstorm at Mount Hakkoda, northern Honshu, Japan, kills 199 during a military training exercise.
 * 28 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
 * February
 * 11 - Police and universal suffrage demonstrators are involved in a physical altercation in Brussels.
 * 15 - The Berlin U-Bahn underground is opened.
 * 18 - US President Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Company for violation of the Sherman Act.
 * March
 * 7 - Second Boer War: South African Boers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men.
 * 10 - A Circuit Court prevents Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology.
 * April
 * 2 - "Electric Theatre," the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
 * 13 - A new car speed record of 74mph is set in Nice, France, by Leon Serpollet.
 * 19 - A magnitude 7.5 earthquake rocks Guatemala, killing 2,000.
 * May
 * 5 - The Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australia's Public Service.
 * 8 - In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000.
 * 13 - Alfonso XIII of Spain begins his reign.
 * 15 - It is claimed that in a field outside Grass Valley, California, Lyman Gilmore achieves flight in a powered airplane (a steam-powered glider). There is no surviving evidence to verify this claim.
 * 20 - Cuba gains independence from the United States.
 * 29 - Lord Rosebery opens London School of Economics.
 * 31 - The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the Second Boer War.
 * June
 * 2 - The Anthracite Coal Strike begins in the United States.
 * 15 - The New York Central railroad inaugurates the 20th Century Limited passenger train between Chicago and New York City, New York.
 * 16 - Australia: Female British subjects (with the exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) win the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.
 * 17 - Norwich City Football Club is formed
 * 26 - Edward VII institutes The Order of Merit.
 * July
 * 10 - The Rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, PA kills 112 miners.
 * 11 - Lord Salisbury retires as British prime minister.
 * 11 - The Order of the Garter is conferred on Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
 * 14 - St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapses.
 * August
 * 1 - 100 miners die in a pit explosion in Wollongong, Australia.
 * 9 - Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom.
 * 22 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American President to ride in an automobile when he rides in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut.
 * October
 * 16 - The first Borstal (youth offenders' institution) opens in Borstal, Kent, UK.
 * 21 - In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
 * November
 * Venezuela Crisis between the United States and Germany.
 * 30 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years hard labor.
 * December
 * 10 - The first Aswan Dam on The Nile is completed.
 * 31 - Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point thus far by man at 82°17'S.

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 * Undated
 * Andrew Johnson, Founding Father, writer and discoverer (dies on sea)
 * June
 * 17 - Diet Kashubian, Train Village Mayor