This page relates to the year 1902 Gregorian Calendrier

Events

Africa

  • May 31st: Signature of the Treated of Vereeniging or Pretoria, moderate peace devoting the end of the War of Boers, those recognizing the British authority. The British take the control of the gold mines of the Transvaal. The British Southern Africa extends from the Cape in the south of the Lac Tanganyika.
  • Décret of October 1st, 1902 constituting the colony of Sénégambie-Niger to which the countries of protectorate of the Senegal are added. Dakar becomes the capital of the French Western Africa.
  • November 1st: The France and the Italy sign a secret agreement by which they are committed preserving their neutrality in Africa.
  • December: Inauguration of the first stopping of Aswan on the the Nile.
  • December 30th: The Spanish government ready to invade the Morocco; several warships in front of Tangier.

  • the Advisory committee of defense of the Colonies, chaired by the minister Gaston Doumergue, decides the creation of “indigenous reserves” to form a military force able to support France in the event of war.

  • the aménokal Firhoum, chief of the Tuaregs Oulliminden, listening to the council of the marabout Mohammed Ahmed, enters in dissidence and only in January 1903 subjects, making its rendering with Gao with the lieutenant-colonel Dagneaud.
  • Début of the reign of Daoud-Will die, sultan of the Ouadaï (fine in 1911).
  • Forwardings of Bauer and Von Waldo on the Bénoué and with the Chad (1902 - 1903), of Knight in the basin of the Chari (1902 - 1903), of Laperrine (1902-1904) and of Gautier (1902-1905) in the Western Sahara.
  • the Germans occupy the Cameroun. The kingdom Bamum comes into contact with the colonizers (1902 - 1903).
  • the Company of the Railroad of Congo to the African Big lakes receives 2 million hectares of grounds.
  • Formation of the KAR ( King' S African Riffles ), colonial troops British gathering the private militia of the Uganda, the Kenya and the Nyassaland.
  • the German authorities decide to introduce the culture of the obligatory Coton into the south-east of the Tanganyika.
  • Creation of the “grounds of the British Crown”: the crown becomes owner of the “vacant grounds” in the colonies where there does not exist any indigenous government and can sell them or to rent them.
  • Creation with Nairobi of a committee of Encouragement to Colonization, then in 1903 of an Association of the Growers and Farmers on the initiative of Lord Delamere. White immigration with the Kenya accelerates in 1908 then in the Années 1920.
  • Prohibition of the emigration of the Africans of the Kenya towards the mines of South Africa.

The Middle East & world arabo-Moslem

  • January 16th: With the assistance of Great Britain, Abdelaziz Ibn Sa' ud takes again Riyadh with the Rachid, supported by the Othomans, and undertakes the reconquest of the Nedjd.

  • First Congress of CUP to Paris, organized with the support of the Syrian Christians resides in France.

  • the Zionist Herzl refuses the proposal of the Ottoman Empire to establish a hearth Zionist in Mésopotamie with the help of finances.
  • For the first time, in an article of the National Review, published in London, American Alfred Thayer Mahan, specialist in the naval history, employs the term of the Middle East

Asia

  • January 30th: Treaty anglo-Japanese (Lansdowne - Hayashi) stipulating the non-intervention of Europeans in the event of war Russo-Japanese woman.
  • July 1st: Civil government with the Filipino , after the rendering of the last insurrectionists.
  • December 16th: An earthquake with the Turkestan makes approximately 4000 victims.

  • Resistance of the Moro of the island of Mindanao against the Americans to the Filipino (fine in 1913).

  • the Laos obtains Siam the territory of Paklay (Sayaburi).

Oceania

  • July 12th: The Parliament Australia N grants the right to vote with the women and establishes restrictions on immigration.

Americas

  • May 8th, French West Indies: Tragic eruption of the Peeled Mountain in Martinique, the town of Saint-Pierre is completely destroyed (30  000 dead) because of a volcanic Cloud.
  • May 20th, Cuba: The the United States withdraw their troops of Cuba which becomes independent.
  • June: Inauguration of the railway line between New York and the Chicago, fastest of the the United States.
  • July 30th, the United States: Confrontation between Jewish and Irishman with New York during the funeral of a rabbi. The police force, made up with majority of Irishman, is shown to have bludgeoned the Jews arbitrarily.
  • August 22nd: Foundation of the Automobile Cadillac Company by William Murphy.

  • International Conference of the American States with Mexico City (1901-1902). Creation of the International office of the American Republics. Drago convention, limiting the recourse to the force for the recovery of a debt.

  • First Argentinian general strike in , implying more 20  000 workers.
  • Beginning of the exodus of the Jews towards the North America to flee persecutions in central Europe.
  • Jose Plácido of Castro, formed a troop which seizes Xapuri and declares the independence of Acre.

Europe

  • Foundation of the Sinn Féin, paramilitary movement for the independence of the Ireland.

  • Fusion of the two large Cantabric steel-works which forms the Altos Homos de Vizcaya .
  • the Portugal account 2  300 km of railways.

Italy

  • July 14th: With Venice, collapse of the bell-tower of Saint-Marc, built in 1540.
  • September 6th: End of VIIe congress of the Italian socialist party with Imola. The current progressist, directed by Filippo Turati, is essential on the revolutionary current. The conditions for a different relationship between the government and the opposition are finally met.
  • September 25th: A cyclone devastates the surroundings of Catane (Italy).
  • September: The president of the Italian council Giuseppe Zanardelli voyage through the Lucanie to enquérir personally problems of the the Mezzogiorno and to testify to the interest which its government carries to the resolution of these problems. He claims a parliamentary inquiry into the question of the Mezzogiorno.

  • the postal mail almost doubled in ten years (5,65 folds per capita on average in 1887-1888, 9,14 in 1901-1902). The highway network passed from 82.636 km in 1880 to 137.342 km in 1902.

  • Université commercale Bocconi.

France

See also: 1902 in France

the United Kingdom

  • July 11th: British the Prime Minister Lord Robert Salisbury leaves his load because of his age after 14 years of mandate.
  • July 12th: Beginning of the preserving ministry of Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (fine in 1905).
  • August 9th: Crowning of the king of the United Kingdom Edouard VII.

  • Business of Taff Vale, a railroad company of Wales, which assigns in justice the railway worker trade-union to have organized strike pickets. The trade union is condemned by the High court to pay a fine of 42  000 £. A campaign of the members of the Labor Party for the defense of the trade union rights follows.

Swiss

  • January 20th: In Swiss, the population refuses by referendum the separation of the Church and the State.
  • the Nobel Prize of peace is allotted to Swiss the Elie Ducommun and Albert Gobat.
  • Inauguration of the new Palate of the Parliament with Bern.
  • the elementary schools are subsidized by the Confederation.

Russia

Dates of the Calendar Julien.
  • January 17th: Alliance anglo-Japanese woman. Recognition of the private interests of the Japan in Korea.
  • January 22nd: Special subcommittee of study of the needs for the agricultural industry chaired by Serge Witte. Opposition of the Minister of Interior Department Plehve.
  • January 25th: In Russia, abolition of the capital punishment.
  • Mars: Does the Russian revolutionist Lénine publish That to make? . He expresses his sights on construction of a strongly centralized revolutionary party. The majority of the social democrat groups adopt the league of the Iskra.
  • March 26th: Russo-Chinese convention on a progressive withdrawal of the Russian troops of Mandchourie.
  • March-April: Agrarian disorders in the province of Kharkov and Poltava. Repression.
  • April 2nd: Assassination of the Minister of Interior Department Sipiaguine by Balmachev, related to the organization of combat Socialist-revolutionist.
  • April 4th: Viatcheslav Plehve becomes Minister of Interior Department. It follows a policy of oppression.
  • working Demonstrations in May in the suburb of Sormovo ( the Mother , of Gorki).
  • April 18th: Joseph Djougachvili (Stalin) is stopped during a clandestine meeting and is off-set in Siberia.
  • 23 - June 26th: Program liberal moderate elaborate at an informal meeting presidents of Zemstvo S with Moscow.
  • July: Publication of the review Osvobojdenie ( Release ) with Stuttgart. Birth of a constitutional and democratic liberalism more radical (Petrounkievitch, Milioukov, Maklakov, Sprouve, etc).
  • July: Foundation of a trust of sale of the metallurgical products ( Prodameta ) vis-a-vis the industrial crisis.
  • September 22nd: Nicolas II of Russia place Finland under the authority of a Russian general governor.
  • October: Lev Davidovitch Bronstein contacts Lénine with London and takes the name of Trotski.
  • Labor unrest: General strike in November with Rostov.

  • Russo-Bulgarian military Convention (1902 - 1913).

  • Completion of the Trans-Siberian (15 days of voyage between Moscow and Vladivostok).

Chronologies sets of themes

Arts & culture

See also: 1902 with the cinema, 1902 in music, 1902 in literature, 1902 with the theater, 1902 as a cartoon

Sciences & technology

Sports

1902 in sport

Nobel Prize

Births in 1902

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Death in 1902

Beats-smg: 1902 Be-X-old: 1902 Map-bms: 1902 Simple: 1902 Zh-yue: 1902 年

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