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| 1902 |
| | | French automobile pioneer Leon Serpollet sets a new land speed record, driving a steam car at 75 mph along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice | |
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| 1902 |
| | | The Metropolis Water Act of 1902 places the original water companies and Hampton Waterworks in the hands of the Metropolitan Water Board (established 1903) | |
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| 1902 |
| | | North Carolina pharmacist Caleb Bradham launches the Pepsi-Cola company in a back room of his shop | |
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| 1902 |
| | | A.E. Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside independently see the link between the atmosphere and the behaviour of radio waves | |
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| 1902 |
| | | The play Cathleen ni Houlihan, by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, fosters Irish nationalism | |
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| 1902 |
| | | The US Congress makes the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 permanent, without the need for ten-year renewals | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Cuba becomes independent after three years of US military rule, with certain restrictions imposed by the Platt Amendment of 1901 | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Rudyard Kipling moves to Bateman's in Sussex, his home for the rest of his life | |
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| 1902 |
| | | A treaty at Vereeniging ends the Boer War and brings the Boer republics under British control | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Charles Pathé develops film facilities capable of mass production, in Vincennes near Paris | |
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