- 1902 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year
1902 in theUnited Kingdom .Incumbents
*Monarch -
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury , Conservative (until11 July ),Arthur Balfour , ConservativeEvents
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5 January - first performance ofGeorge Bernard Shaw 's 1893 play "Mrs. Warren's Profession " inLondon .cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=460–461]
*17 January - "The Times Literary Supplement " first published.
*30 January - TheAnglo-Japanese Alliance is signed inLondon ending the policy of "splendid isolation ".
*13 February - The1902 World Figure Skating Championships held inLondon .
*7 March -Second Boer War :South Africa nBoers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men.
*2 April - first performance ofWilliam Butler Yeats 's play "Cathleen Ní Houlihan " inDublin .
*5 April - the firstIbrox disaster : a stand atIbrox Stadium inGlasgow collapses during an England versus Scotland football match.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006] 25 people die and 517 are injured.
*31 May -Treaty of Vereeniging signed by the United Kingdom, theSouth African Republic and the Republic of the Orange Free State bringing theSecond Boer War to an end.
*23 June - Edward VII institutes TheOrder of Merit .
*30 June –11 August - a conference held inLondon supports the principle ofImperial Preference , a system of reciprocally-levelledtariff s orFree trade agreements between differentDominion s and colonies within theBritish Empire .
*11 July - Retirement of Lord Salisbury as Prime Minister. He is succeeded by his nephewArthur Balfour .
*9 August - Edward VII is crowned King.
*13 September -Harry Jackson becomes the first British person to be convicted on the basis offingerprint evidence.
*1 October - Launch of theRoyal Navy 's first submarine, the "Holland 1 ".
*16 October - the firstBorstal , a type of youth detention centre, opened inBorstal, Kent .
*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 ofVenezuela in a dispute over compensation claims.
*10 December -Ronald Ross wins theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his work onmalaria , 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". [cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1902/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1902|accessdate=2007-10-27]
* December - TheBalfour Education Act establishes the system of Local Education Authorities inEngland and Wales .Undated
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Oliver Heaviside proposes theKennelly-Heaviside layer .
*William Bayliss andErnest Starling discover the first hormone,secretin .Publications
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J. M. Barrie 's play "The Admirable Crichton ".
*Arnold Bennett 's novel "Anna of the Five Towns ".
*Arthur Conan Doyle 'sSherlock Holmes novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles ".
*Joseph Conrad 's novella "Heart of Darkness ".
*John A. Hobson 's "Imperialism".
*Henry James 's novel "The Wings of the Dove ".
*Rudyard Kipling 's "Just So Stories ".
*Beatrix Potter 's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit ".
* "The Times Literary Supplement ".Births
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5 January -Stella Gibbons , novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer (died 1989)
*16 January -Eric Liddell , runner (died 1945)
*4 February -Hartley Shawcross , prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials (died 2003)
*28 March - DameFlora Robson , English actress (died 1984)
*29 March -William Walton , English composer (died 1983)
*30 March - Ted Heath, bandleader (died 1969)
*8 April - Andrew Irvine, mountaineer, disappeared onMount Everest (died 1924)
*20 April -Donald Wolfit , actor-manager (died 1968)
*8 August -Paul Dirac , physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
*16 August -Georgette Heyer , writer (died 1974)
*20 September -Stevie Smith , poet and novelist (died 1971)
*21 September -Allen Lane , publisher (died 1970)
*9 November -Anthony Asquith , film director (died 1968)
*19 December -Ralph Richardson , actor (died 1983)
*20 December -Prince George, Duke of Kent (died 1942)Deaths
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11 January - Johnny Briggs,cricketer (born 1862)
*17 November -Hugh Price Hughes , social reformer (born 1847)
*26 March -Cecil Rhodes , imperialist (born 1853)
*18 June - Samuel Butler, author (born 1835)
*6 September -Sir Frederick Augustus Abel , chemist (born 1827)
*23 December -Frederick Temple ,Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1821)References
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