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==Timeline of 1902==
==Timeline of 1902==
*1902/1 [[Hakkoda Mountains Incident|Hakkôda Mountains Incident]] - Two-hundred ten soldiers of the 5th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion are caught in a blizzard in the mountains near [[Aomori city]]. Only eleven survive.
*1902/1/30 The [[Anglo-Japanese Alliance]] is entered into. It lasts until 1922.
==Other Events of 1902==
==Other Events of 1902==
*"Mainland" system of democratic election of representatives to the [[National Diet]] is extended to [[Hokkaido]].
*"Mainland" system of democratic election of representatives to the [[National Diet]] is extended to [[Hokkaido]].
*[[Meiji Art Society]] is reorganized as the Pacific Painting Society (''Taiheiyô Gakai'').
*Military conscription is instituted in the [[Miyako Islands|Miyako]] and [[Yaeyama Islands]].
*A motion picture, "The Spanish-American War," is shown in Okinawa for the first time.
*[[Okakura Kakuzo|Okakura Kakuzô's]] ''[[The Ideals of the East]]'' is published.
*[[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]], the final shogun, is named ''[[kazoku|kôshaku]]''.
*[[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]], the final shogun, is named ''[[kazoku|kôshaku]]''.
*Western mode of [[age calculation]] is officially adopted, though it won't actually come into regular use for another 50 years, roughly.
*Western mode of [[age calculation]]<!--満年齢; age counted in full years of life--> is officially adopted, though it won't actually come into regular use for another 50 years, roughly.
===Births and Deaths===
===Births and Deaths===
*Print artist [[Azechi Umetaro|Azechi Umetarô]] is born.
*Print artist [[Azechi Umetaro|Azechi Umetarô]] is born.
*[[Matsudaira Tadayuki]] dies (b. [[1825]]).
*[[Matsudaira Tadayuki]] dies (b. [[1825]]).
*[[Nagatani Nobuatsu]], first [[Meiji period]] governor of Kyoto, dies (b. [[1818]]).
*[[Saigo Tsugumichi|Saigô Tsugumichi]] dies (b. [[1843]]).
*[[Saigo Tsugumichi|Saigô Tsugumichi]] dies (b. [[1843]]).
*[[Sano Tsunetami]] dies.
*[[Sato Hikogoro|Satô Hikogorô]] dies (b. [[1827]]).
*[[Sato Hikogoro|Satô Hikogorô]] dies (b. [[1827]]).