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animated pictures and text timeline [1902]


animated pictures and text timeline [1902]

  • 1902 April
    Manchester United Football Club
    are formed by John Henry Davies
    in a name change from Newton
    Heath.

  • 1902 May
    Treaty of Vereeniging signed by the UK,
    the South African Republic and the
    Republic of the Orange Free State
    bringing the Second Boer War to an end.

  • 1902 August
    Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen
    Alexandra at Westminster Abbey.



  • 1902 October
    Launch of the Royal Navy's first submarine,
    the Holland 1.



  • 1902 October
    The first Borstal youth detention
    centre is opened at Borstal, Kent.

  • 1902 December
    The Balfour Education Act establishes
    Local Education Authorities in and
    permits them to build and maintain
    secondary schools.

  • 1902 December
    The British Army adopts a dark khaki
    serge, replacing the traditional red
    coat for regular wear.


  • 1902
    Dr Ronald Ross, a British medical
    doctor, wins the Nobel Prize in
    Physiology or Medicine for his work on
    the transmission of malaria.


  • 1902
    Marmite first produced, in Burton
    upon Trent. It is made from yeast
    extract, a by-product of beer brewing.


  • 1902
    Will Barker founds Ealing Studios,
    a television and film production
    company. It is the oldest
    continuously working studio facility
    for film production in the world








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