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1902 was a year.
Events
The second Boer War came to an end. (PROSE: Players)
The 1902 Education Act overhauled the education system of England and Wales, establishing Local Education Authorities which funded the state-run schools and those affiliated to the Church of England and the Catholic Church. (PROSE: A History of Humankind)
The Fourth Doctor and Leela visited Fang Rock and defeated the Rutan Host. (TV: Horror of Fang Rock)
The Australian cricket team toured England in this year. The Fifth Doctor once wanted to witness it. (AUDIO: Alien Heart)
The Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex visited Egypt and met Howard Carter. (AUDIO: False Gods)
The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones visited Scotland, and discovered that Balmoral Castle — and King Edward VII — had been removed by the Judoon. (PROSE: Revenge of the Judoon)
Rupert Gaskin began construction of the Gaskin Tunnel. (PROSE: Wishing Well)
The half-built Watkins Tower. (COMIC: They Think It's All Over)
In Wembley, the Watkins Tower was closed. The tower was incomplete and there were plans to finish it, but the site would instead be used for Wembley Stadium. (COMIC: They Think It's All Over)
The Eleventh Doctor recruited Edwardian explorer John Riddell to help him with a 24th century distress call. (TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)
Births and deaths
Gordon Conall Lethbridge-Stewart was born. (PROSE: The Wages of Sin)
Other
After being sent back in time to Hull on 5 December 1920 by a Weeping Angel, Kathy Nightingale claimed to have been born during this year. (TV: Blink)