1902

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Events of 1902

January - In France, Alfred Loisy writes L'évangile et l'Eglise, which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis.
January 1 - The first college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
January 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.
January 23 - A snowstorm at Mount Hakkoda, northern Honshu, Japan, kills 199 during a military training exercise.
January 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.
February 15 - The Berlin U-Bahn underground is opened.
February 18 - U.S. 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.
March 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.
April 13 - A new car speed record of 74 mph is set in Nice, France, by Leon Serpollet.
April 19 - A magnitude 7.5 earthquake rocks Guatemala, killing 2,000.

May 5 - The Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australia's Public Service.
May 8 - In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000.
May 13 - Alfonso XIII of Spain begins his reign.
May 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.
May 20 - Cuba gains independence from the United States.
May 29 - Lord Rosebery opens London School of Economics.
May 31 - The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the Second Boer War.

June 2 - The Anthracite Coal Strike begins in the United States.
June 15 - The New York Central railroad inaugurates the 20th Century Limited passenger train between Chicago and New York City, New York.
June 16 - Australia: Female British subjects (with the exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) win the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.
June 17 - Norwich City Football Club is formed.
June 26 - Edward VII institutes The Order of Merit.

August 1 - 100 miners die in a pit explosion in Wollongong, Australia.
August 9 - Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom.
August 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, U.K.
October 21 - In the United States, a five month strike by the United Mine Workers ends.