1902

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1899 1900 1901 - 1902 - 1903 1904 1905

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s

align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).

Events

January 28 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
France, Loisy's L'vangile et l'Eglise which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis
February 11 - Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.
February 15 - Berlin underground opened.
February 18 - US President Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Company for violation of the Sherman Act.
March 10 - Circuit Court's decision disallows Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology.
March 10 - 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 31 - Disputed first powered heavier-than-air flight; most date it 1903 if at all
April 2 - "Electric Theatre", the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
The Irish National Theatre Society is founded by W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge and George Russell.

May 8 - In Martinique, Mount Pele erupts, destroys the town of St. Pierre, and kills over 30,000 people. Only a small handful of St. Pierre's residents survived the blast.
May 13 - Alfonso XIII of Spain formally begins his reign
May 15 - In a field outside Grass Valley, California, Lyman Gilmore reportedly becomes the first person to fly a powered airplane (a steam-powered glider).
May 17 - Archaeologist Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism
May 20 - Cuba gains independence from the United States
May 29 - Lord Rosebery opens London School of Economics
May 31 - Peace of Vereeniging ends 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, IL and New York, NY.
June 16 - Australia: Female British subjects (with the exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.
June 26 - Edward VII institutes The Order of Merit.
July 11 - Retirement of Lord Salisbury as British prime minister.
July 11 - Order of the Garter conferred on Archduke Ferdinand.
July 14 - St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapses.
August 9 - Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom.
August 22 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first American President to ride in an automobile when he rode in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut.

September 3 - Popular author Sarah Orne Jewett is thrown out of a carriage, virtually ending her writing career.
October 21 - In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
November 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 31 - Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point thus far by man at 8217'S