1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1902nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 902nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 2nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1902, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1902 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1902
MCMII
Ab urbe condita2655
Armenian calendar1351
ԹՎ ՌՅԾԱ
Assyrian calendar6652
Baháʼí calendar58–59
Balinese saka calendar1823–1824
Bengali calendar1309
Berber calendar2852
British Regnal yearEdw. 7 – 2 Edw. 7
Buddhist calendar2446
Burmese calendar1264
Byzantine calendar7410–7411
Chinese calendar辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
4599 or 4392
    — to —
壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
4600 or 4393
Coptic calendar1618–1619
Discordian calendar3068
Ethiopian calendar1894–1895
Hebrew calendar5662–5663
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1958–1959
 - Shaka Samvat1823–1824
 - Kali Yuga5002–5003
Holocene calendar11902
Igbo calendar902–903
Iranian calendar1280–1281
Islamic calendar1319–1320
Japanese calendarMeiji 35
(明治35年)
Javanese calendar1831–1832
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4235
Minguo calendar10 before ROC
民前10年
Nanakshahi calendar434
Thai solar calendar2444–2445
Tibetan calendar阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
2028 or 1647 or 875
    — to —
阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
2029 or 1648 or 876

Events

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January

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January 1: first Rose Bowl college American football game.
 
Andrew Carnegie

February

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March

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April

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May 8: Mount Pelée erupts.

June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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October 24: Santa María erupts

November

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December

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Date unknown

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Births

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January

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Georgy Malenkov
 
Saud of Saudi Arabia
 
Marjorie Daw
 
Tallulah Bankhead

February

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Langston Hughes
 
Charles Lindbergh
 
Léon M'ba
 
Walter Houser Brattain
 
Herma Szabo
 
John Steinbeck

March

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Will Geer
 
Mohammed Abdel Wahab
 
Son House
 
Thomas E. Dewey
 
Dame Flora Robson

April

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Alfred Kastler

June

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Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu

July

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George Murphy
 
Kurt Alder
 
Sir Karl Popper

August

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Paul Dirac
 
Mohammad Hatta

September

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Juscelino Kubitschek
 
John Houseman
 
Ruhollah Khomeini

October

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Leopold Figl

November

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Eugene Wigner
 
Mikhail Suslov

December

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Strom Thurmond
 
Margaret Hamilton
 
Frances Bavier

Date unknown

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Deaths

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January–June

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Cecil Rhodes
 
Hans von Pechmann
 
Esther Hobart Morris
 
Saint Agostino Roscelli

July–December

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Saint Maria Goretti
 
Rudolf Virchow
 
Émile Zola
 
Prudente de Morais

Nobel Prizes

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Further reading and year books

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  • Colby, Frank Moore ed. he International Yearbook A Compendium Of The Worlds Progress During The Year 1902 (1903) coverage of each state online
  • 1902 Annual Cyclopedia (1903) online; highly detailed coverage of "Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry" for 1902; massive compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage; 865pp
  • Wall, Edgar G. ed. The British Empire yearbook (1903), 1276pp; covers 1902 online
  • Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: vol. 1 1900-1933 (1997) pp 55–68; global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare.