1902 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1902 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Events
- 7 March - Second Boer War: South African Boers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men.
- 26 June - Edward VII institutes The Order of Merit.
- 11 July - Retirement of Lord Salisbury as Prime Minister.
- 9 August - Edward VII is crowned King.
- 31 December - Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point thus far by man at 82°17'S.
[edit] Unknown dates
- Oliver Heaviside proposes the Kennelly-Heaviside layer.
- Ronald Ross wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "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 this disease and methods of combating it". [1]
[edit] Births
- 5 January - Stella Gibbons, novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer (d. 1989)
- 16 January - Eric Liddell, runner (d. 1945)
- 4 February - Hartley Shawcross, prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials (d. 2003)
- 28 March - Dame Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984)
- 29 March - William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)
- 8 April - Andrew Irvine, mountaineer, disappeared on Mount Everest (d. 1924)
- 20 April - Donald Wolfit, actor-manager (d. 1968)
- 8 August - Paul Dirac, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
- 9 November - Anthony Asquith, film director (d. 1968)
- 20 December - Prince George, Duke of Kent (d. 1942)
[edit] Deaths
- 11 January - Johnny Briggs,cricketer (b. 1862)
- 17 November - Hugh Price Hughes, social reformer (b. 1847)
- 26 March - Cecil Rhodes, imperialist (b. 1853)
- 18 June - Samuel Butler, author (b. 1835)
- 6 September - Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, chemist (b. 1827)
- 23 December - Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821)
