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13 February – the 1902 World Figure Skating Championships held in London. 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. 2 April – first performance of William Butler Yeats 's play Cathleen Ní Houlihan in Dublin. [3]
McClure's Magazine prints "Tweed Days in St. Louis" by C.H. Wetmore and Lincoln Steffens. The article introduces the muckraking era. Claude Debussy introduces impressionism to music in Pelléas and Mélisande at the Opéra Comique in Paris. Beatrix Potter writes her first Peter Rabbit story.
1911 – Supreme Court breaks up Standard Oil. 1911 – Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. 1911 – First Indianapolis 500 is staged; Ray Harroun is the first winner. 1912 – RMS Titanic sank. 1912 – New Mexico and Arizona become states. 1912 – Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette Gordon Low.
1902. Jan 8 With the Boxer Rebellion defeated, China's Empress Cixi, with her nephew the emperor in tow, returns to her palace in Beijing. Jan 8 In New York City a train collision in the Park Avenue tunnel kills 17 and injures 38. This will be followed by the state banning steam locomotives.
In 1902 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt pursued the Progressive goal of curbing the enormous economic and political power of the giant corporate trusts by resurrecting the nearly defunct Sherman Antitrust Act to bring a lawsuit that led to the breakup of a huge railroad conglomerate, the Northern Securities Company (ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1904).
March. T. R. establishes Pelican Island, Florida, as a federal bird reservation, the first of many federally-protected wildlife refuges.. September-October. T. R. agrees to have a jury of six arbitrate a dispute between Canada and the U.S. over a claim to land in the Klondike region.
The funeral cortege of Queen Victoria outside St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle on February 2, 1901. Feb 2 The US Congress passes the Army Reorganization Act, placing the minimum number of men under arms at 58,000. Feb 3 Dutch troops under Gen Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilië on Sumatra.
