WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1902
Find out what all happened February to December 1902

Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. (9. August 1902)

Cadillac Motor Company is founded. (22. August 1902)

Macario Sakay establishes the Tagalog Republic with himself as President. (6. May 1902)

In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast. (8. May 1902)

Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York (21. July 1902)

American Old West: Kid Curry Logan, second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor. (30. November 1902)

Second Boer War: Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria. (27. February 1902)

Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake. (18. April 1902)

The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens. (4. August 1902)

James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming. (13. April 1902)

The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu. (14. December 1902)

Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile. (22. August 1902)

Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer. (17. May 1902)

Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa. (31. May 1902)

"Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California. (2. April 1902)

Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride. (20. April 1902)

8 fishermen lose their lives in Galway Bay, County Galway, Ireland in the Galway Bay drowning tragedy. (4. May 1902)

Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President. (20. May 1902)

A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France. (1. September 1902)

The Campanile in St. Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta. (14. July 1902)

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