MultiEducator · The 20th Century Almanac
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0220th C.
1902
The 20th Century Almanac · The 1900s

1902

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Britain and Japan sealed an alliance that reshaped Pacific power, while the Treaty of Vereeniging ended the Boer War and brought the South African republics under British rule. Britain and Germany blockaded Venezuela over unpaid debts, and Cuba won its formal independence.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
Nobel · Literature
Mommsen
World Series
No. 1 Song
Top TV
Academy · Actor

Major Events of 1902

3 events
Anglo-Japanese TreatySouth African Peace AgreementBritain & Germany Threaten Venezuela

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
FISCHER, HERMANN EMIL, Germany, Berlin University, b. 1852, d. 1919: "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine syntheses"
Literature
MOMMSEN, CHRISTIAN MATTHIAS THEODOR, Germany, b. 1817 (in Garding, Sleswick, then Denmark), d. 1903: "the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with special reference to his monumental work, A history of Rome"
Physiology or Medicine
ROSS, Sir RONALD, Great Britain, University College, Liverpool, b. 1857 (in Almora, India), d. 1932: "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 t
Peace
Bureau, Berne
Physics
The prize was awarded jointly to: LORENTZ, HENDRIK ANTOON, the Netherlands, Leyden University, b. 1853, d. 1928; and ZEEMAN, PIETER, the Netherlands, Amsterdam University, b. 1865, d. 1943: "in recognition of the extraordinary service they