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| 1902 |
| | | The English painter G.F. Watts is made a founding member of the Order of Merit | |
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| 1903 |
| | | The Wizard of Oz, based on the book by Frank Baum, opens on Broadway as a musical to huge success | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Cuba is forced to accept a permanent US military presence in Guantanamo Bay | |
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| 1903 |
| | | US author Jack London publishes a novel, The Call of the Wild, in which a huge pet dog has alarming adventures | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Lenin's supporters become known as the Bolsheviks ('majority') as opposed to the Mensheviks ('minority') after a split at the party's Second Congress | |
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| 1903 |
| | | German surgeon Georg Clemens Perthes discovers, in Leipzig, that X-rays can inhibit cancer | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Sibelius writes Valse Triste as incidental music to a play, Kuolema, by his brother-in-law Arvid Järnefelt | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Gertrude Stein leaves the USA to share with her brother an apartment in Paris that soon becomes a literary and artistic salon | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Emmeline Pankhurst founds the Women's Social and Political Union to fight for women's political rights in the UK | |
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| 1903 |
| | | José Battle is elected president of Uruguay and proves to be a visionary politician | |
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