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| 1902 |
| | | Charles Pathé develops film facilities capable of mass production, in Vincennes near Paris | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Irish politician Arthur Griffith launches Sinn Fein, as an organization campaigning for a strong and independent Ireland | |
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| 1902 |
| | | After the defeat of neighbouring Transvaal in the Boer War, the British take sole control of Swaziland | |
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| 1902 |
| | | 'Land of Hope and Glory' features in its lasting form as the finale of Elgar's Coronation Ode for Edward VII | |
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| 1902 |
| | | The three-year Philippine-American War is brought to an end, and the Philippines become a US colony | |
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| 1902 |
| | | The Tale of Peter Rabbit is published commercially, a year after being first printed by Beatrix Potter at her own expense | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Lord Salisbury resigns as British prime minister and is succeeded by his nephew, A.J. Balfour | |
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| 1902 |
| | | The sculptor Aristide Maillol has his first one-man exhibition, at the Galerie Vollard in Paris | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Augustus John meets his favourite subject Dorothy McNeill, to whom he gives the Gypsy name Dorelia | |
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| 1902 |
| | | John Masefield's poem 'Sea Fever' is published in Salt-Water Ballads | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Hughie Cannon writes 'Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home' for a minstrel, John Queen | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths is performed at the Moscow Art Theatre | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles begins publication in serial form | |
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| 1902 |
| | | W.B. Yeats heads a group of writers and directors in establishing the Irish National Theatre Society | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Claude Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande has its premiere in Paris | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Henry James publishes the first of his three last novels, The Wings of the Dove | |
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| 1902 |
| | | French film pioneer Georges Méliès uses trick effects for his film Journey to the Moon | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Gustav Mahler marries Alma, daughter of the artist Emil Jakob Schindler | |
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| 1902 |
| | | The tenor Enrico Caruso cuts his first phonograph records in Milan, beginning an immensely successful recording career | |
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| 1902 |
| | | William K. Vanderbilt drives the first internal-combustion car to win the land speed record, at 76 mph at Ablis in France | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Brooklyn shopkeepers Morris and Rose Michtom have a huge success with their presidential 'Teddy's Bear' | |
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| 1902 |
| | | The first Aswan dam, at this time the world's largest, is completed on the Nile | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Joseph Conrad publishes a collection of stories including Heart of Darkness, a sinister tale based partly on his own journey up the Congo | |
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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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