1902 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1902 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - Edward VII of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative (until 11 July), Arthur Balfour, Conservative
[edit] Events
- 5 January - first performance of George Bernard Shaw's 1893 play Mrs. Warren's Profession in London.[1]
- 17 January - The Times Literary Supplement first published.[1]
- 30 January - The Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London ending the policy of "splendid isolation".[1]
- 13 February - The 1902 World Figure Skating Championships held in London.
- 7 March - 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.
- 2 April - first performance of William Butler Yeats's play Cathleen Ní Houlihan in Dublin.[1]
- 5 April - the first Ibrox disaster: a stand at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow collapses during an England versus Scotland football match.[2] 25 people die and 517 are injured.
- 31 May - Treaty of Vereeniging signed by the United Kingdom, the South African Republic and the Republic of the Orange Free State bringing the Second Boer War to an end.[1]
- 26 June - Edward VII institutes The Order of Merit.
- 30 June–11 August - a conference held in London supports the principle of Imperial Preference, a system of reciprocally-levelled tariffs or Free trade agreements between different Dominions and colonies within the British Empire.[1]
- 11 July - Retirement of Lord Salisbury as Prime Minister. He is succeeded by his nephew Arthur Balfour.[1]
- 9 August - Edward VII is crowned King.
- 31 December - Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point reached thus far by man at 82°17'S.
- 9 December - British and German forces seize the navy of Venezuela in a dispute over compensation claims.[1]
[edit] Undated
- Oliver Heaviside proposes the Kennelly-Heaviside layer.
- Ronald Ross wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation for successful research on this disease and methods of combating it".[3]
- The Balfour Education Act establishes the system of Local Education Authorities in England and Wales.[1]
[edit] Publications
- J. M. Barrie's play The Admirable Crichton.[1]
- Arnold Bennett's novel Anna of the Five Towns.[1]
- Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles.[1]
- Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness.[1]
- John A. Hobson's Imperialism.[1]
- Henry James's novel The Wings of the Dove.[1]
- Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories.[1]
- Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit.[1]
- The Times Literary Supplement.[1]
[edit] Births
- 5 January - Stella Gibbons, novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer (d. 1989)
- 16 January - Eric Liddell, runner (d. 1945)
- 4 February - Hartley Shawcross, prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials (d. 2003)
- 28 March - Dame Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984)
- 29 March - William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)
- 8 April - Andrew Irvine, mountaineer, disappeared on Mount Everest (d. 1924)
- 20 April - Donald Wolfit, actor-manager (d. 1968)
- 8 August - Paul Dirac, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
- 9 November - Anthony Asquith, film director (d. 1968)
- 20 December - Prince George, Duke of Kent (d. 1942)
[edit] Deaths
- 11 January - Johnny Briggs,cricketer (b. 1862)
- 17 November - Hugh Price Hughes, social reformer (b. 1847)
- 26 March - Cecil Rhodes, imperialist (b. 1853)
- 18 June - Samuel Butler, author (b. 1835)
- 6 September - Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, chemist (b. 1827)
- 23 December - Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 460–461. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1902. Retrieved on 2007-10-27.
