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Year 1902

John Taylor Gatto has stated that the concept of 'adolescence' was invented in 1902, as a method of prolonging childish dependence though schools.

Colonial Conference

Full article: 1902 Colonial Conference

Pilgrims Society

Full article: The_Pilgrims_Society

The The_Pilgrims_Society was start as an dining club. It continues to this day and has became particularly important as a meeting place of bankers, diplomats and politicians.

Events

• January 28 – The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, D.C., to promote scientific research with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
• January 30 – The Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed.
• February 27 – Australian officers Breaker Morant and Peter Handcock are executed for the murder of Boer prisoners of war near Louis Trichardt.
• May 20 – Cuba gains independence from the United States.
• May 31 – The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the Second Boer War.
• July 2 – Philippine–American War ends.
• July 11 – Lord Salisbury retires as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• August 9 – Coronation of Edward VII as King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, Emperor of India at Westminster Abbey in London.
• October 16 – The first Borstal (youth offenders' institution) opens in Borstal, Kent, U.K.
• October 21 – A five-month strike by the United Mine Workers in the United States ends.
  • King Leopold II of Belgium survives an attempted assassination in Brussels by Italian anarchist Gennaro Rubino.
• December–February 1903 – Venezuelan crisis: Britain, Germany and Italy sustain a naval blockade on Venezuela, in order to enforce collection of outstanding financial claims. This prompts the development of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
• December 10 – The first Aswan Dam on the Nile is completed.
• December 17 – The Commercial Telegraph Agency (TTA, Torgovo-Telegrafnue Agenstvo), predecessor of TASS, is officially established under the Ministry of Finance at Saint Petersburg in the Russian Empire.