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1901
 
    
Robert Falcon Scott sets off in the Discovery on his first expedition to the Antarctic       
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1901
 
   
Australia passes an Immigration Restriction Act to underpin the White Australia policy      
1901
 
  
The 1901 census reveals that the population of the United Kingdom has almost doubled in 50 years, to 38 million     
1901
 
    
Frank Hornby begins to market in Britain his immensely successful Meccano kits       
1902
 
    
Ebenezer Howard republishes his earlier book of 1898 as Garden Cities of Tomorrow       
1902
 
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Venezuela defaults on European interest payments and is soon threatened by British, German and Italian warships     
1902
 
    
Rudyard Kipling publishes his Just So Stories for Little Children       
1902
 
     
The play Cathleen ni Houlihan, by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, fosters Irish nationalism        
1902
 
    
Rudyard Kipling moves to Bateman's in Sussex, his home for the rest of his life       
1902
 
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A treaty at Vereeniging ends the Boer War and brings the Boer republics under British control