Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

Thousand Days War ( 1899 – 1902 ) cost an estimated 100, 000 lives, and up to 300, 000 people died during " La Violencia " ( The Violence ) of the late 1940s and 1950s, a bipartisan confrontation which erupted after the assassination of Liberal popular candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.

She also sketched President Teddy Roosevelt during her White House visits in 1902, during which " He sat for two hours, talking most of the time, reciting Kipling, and reading scraps of Browning.

Monument commemorating the soldiers of the Foreign Legion killed on duty during the South-Oranese campaign ( 1897 – 1902 ).

Opened during the 1880s and originally located at 11th Street and University Place, called the Hotel St. Stephan and then after 1902, called The Hotel Albert while under the ownership of William Ryder it served as a meeting place, restaurant and dwelling for several important artists and writers from the late 19th century well into the 20th century.

Born in Madrid, Gris studied mechanical drawing at the Escuela de Artes y Manufacturas in Madrid from 1902 to 1904, during which time he contributed drawings to local periodicals.

After spending months in a sanatorium during the summer and fall of 1900, Weber and his wife travelled to Italy at the end of the year and did not return to Heidelberg until April 1902.

He was the second of only two Australian prime ministers to be knighted during their term of office ( the first prime minister Edmund Barton was knighted during his term in 1902 ).

In 1900 the ZAR was annexed by the United Kingdom during the Second Boer War although the official surrender of the territory only took place at the end of the war, on 31 May 1902.

From 1902 to 1911, Scientific American supervised the publication of the Encyclopedia Americana, which during some of that period was known as The Americana.

He escaped from the Barnum and Bailey circus during their stay in Tours in 1902.

Lizzie van Zyl was a child inmate in a British-run concentration camp in South Africa who died from typhoid fever during the Second Boer War | Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ).

He studied naval engineering in Saint Petersburg from 1902 until 1908, during which time he joined the Bolsheviks.

But when comparing Sherman's scorched-earth campaigns to the actions of the British Army during the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 )— another war in which civilians were targeted because of their central role in sustaining an armed resistance — South African historian Hermann Giliomee declares that it " looks as if Sherman struck a better balance than the British commanders between severity and restraint in taking actions proportional to legitimate needs ".

He had five children by his first wife — Richard ( 1889 – 1968 ), Mair ( 1890 – 1907, who died during an appendectomy ), Olwen ( 1892 – 1990 ), Gwilym ( 1894 – 1967 ) and Megan ( 1902 – 1966 ) — and possibly one child by Stevenson, a girl named Jennifer ( 1929 – 2012 ).

Telephone switchboard | Switchboard during the Korean Empire period ( 1902 ).

His theory was published originally in his dissertation Intégrale, longueur, aire (" Integral, length, area ") at the University of Nancy during 1902.

Frank Richard Stockton ( April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902 ) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century.

Originally, Hooper bought the rights to the 25-volume ninth edition and persuaded the British newspaper The Times to issue its reprint, with eleven additional volumes ( 35 volumes total ) as the tenth edition, which was published during 1902.

* John F. Anderson ( 1832 – 1902 ), brigadier general during the American Civil War

Australian soldiers Harry " Breaker " Morant and Peter Handcock were shot by a British firing squad in South Africa on February 27, 1902, for alleged war crimes during the Boer War ; questions have since been raised as to whether they received a fair trial.

Chamberlain visited South Africa between 26 December 1902 and 25 February 1903, seeking to promote Anglo-Afrikaner conciliation and the colonial contribution to the British Empire, and trying to meet people in the newly unified South Africa, including those who had recently been enemies during the Boer War.

It was designated as the parish seat of government in 1846 and incorporated on March 18, 1902, during the administration of Governor William Wright Heard.

From 1902 – 1910 it served as the capital of the Orange River Colony and since that time as the provincial capital of the Free State.

* February 22-Isidore Goresky, farm labourer, teacher and provincial politician ( born 1902 )

In 1902, the government decided that the provincial police should no longer be directed by a judge but by an officer of the police themselves.

After confederation, two conferences of provincial premiers were held, in 1887 and 1902, in which the federal government was not represented.

He served in that role until he entered Ontario provincial politics in 1902.

In the provincial election of 1902, the Liberal majority was cut to five seats, but at a time when parties lacked the discipline over their members they would later develop, five seats was not enough for a secure government.

In the 1898 Ontario provincial election, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and re-elected in 1902 and 1905.

In 1902 he became the 15th premier leading the province's last non-partisan administration but was dismissed by the lieutenant governor in 1903 due to charges of conflict of interest that involved giving an important construction contract to his own hardware business, and lost his seat in the 1904 provincial election.

In 1901 Seitz was elected to the Imperial Council and in 1902 to the provincial parliament of Lower Austria.

Until about 1902 it was often called Algoma West from the name of the provincial constituency established in 1885.

The university originated from Shuntian School established in Beijing in 1902 and Beiyang Women Normal School established in Tianjin in 1906. Approved by Hebei provincial government, the former Hebei Teachers University, Hebei Teachers College, Hebei Education Institute established in 1952 and Hebei Vocational and Technological College merged into one in June 1996 and was named Hebei Normal University.

Cochrane first ran for provincial office in 1902 as the Conservative Party candidate in Nipissing West in the 1902 election, but was defeated by Joseph Michaud.

This was then followed on July 2, 1902, by U. S. Secretary of War Elihu Root telegraphing that the insurrection the United States had come to an end and that provincial civil governments had been established everywhere except those areas inhabited by Moro tribes.

When Mindoro became a part of Marinduque on June 13, 1902, the provincial capital was once again moved to Puerto Galera.

The Calgary Herald attacked the Territorial Liberals in October 1902, after they held a convention in which they failed to adopt policies towards the creation of a provincial government.

Cebu Normal University was established in 1902 as a provincial normal school, a branch of the Philippine Normal School.

He won election as alderman in Ottawa, serving from 1902 to 1923, but lost in 1914 in election for Ottawa mayor and was also defeated in a run for provincial politics in 1904.

Captain Harry Stafford found four local businessmen, including John Henry Davies ( who became club president ), each willing to invest £ 500 in return for a direct interest in running the club and who subsequently changed the name ; on 24 April 1902, Manchester United was officially born.

Captain Stairs is commemorated with identical 3 tablets ( c. 1902 ) in the vestibule of Mackenzie Building at Royal Military College of Canada, St. George's Cathedral ( Kingston, Ontario ) and in Rochester Cathedral near Chatham, England.

The village of Winnsboro was incorporated in 1902, and Captain William Phillip Powell was appointed to serve as the first mayor.

Burnsville was incorporated in 1902 by the Circuit Court and named for Captain John Burns who operated the first sawmill in that section of the state and who established the town shortly after the close of the American Civil War.

He was promoted to Captain on July 15, 1902.

* July 15, 1902 — Captain

She took a job as a clerk at the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Standing Rock Indian Reservation in New Mexico where in 1902 she met and married a mixed-race Nakota man, Captain Raymond Bonnin.

** Captain Anketell Moutray Read, VC, ( attended United Services College 1898 – 1902 )

In 1902 he became Governor of New South Wales, the first naval officer since Captain Bligh to hold the post and proved so popular that his term was extended.

Arthur Balfour, Captain of the Golf Club in 1889, became Captain of the R & A in 1894 and British Prime Minister from 1902 – 1908.

* Captain Sir William Nott-Bower, KCVO ( 1902 – 1925 )

In October 1902, Captain Robert von Beringe ( 1865 – 1940 ) shot two large apes during an expedition to establish the boundaries of German East Africa.

A memorial tablet was erected in 1902 to the memory of three officers, graduates of the Royal Military College of Canada, who died while serving in Africa: Huntly Brodie Mackay, Captain Royal Engineers ; William Henry Robinson, Captain Royal Engineers ; and William Grant Stairs, Captain the Welsh Regiment.

On 19 December 1902, commissioned by R. T. Simmons, the British Consul in Tahiti, Captain G. F. Jones and a group of Pitcairners visited the nearby islands and annexed them to the United Kingdom.

* The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh ( 1902 )

Discovered in 1902 by the British National Antarctic Expedition under Captain Robert F. Scott and named after Scott by Lieutenant Kristian Prestrud, leader of the Eastern Sledge Party of Amundsen's South Pole expedition who ascended the features while exploring Edward VII Peninsula in 1911.

He joined the Royal Marine Artillery, was promoted Captain and served in successive roles including coastal defence analyst in the War Division of the Naval Intelligence Department ( 1902 – 1906 ).

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, leader of the British National Antarctic Expedition ( BrNAE ) ( 1901-1904 ), discovered Drygalski Ice Tongue in January 1902 and named it for Prof. Erich von Drygalski, a contemporary German explorer then in Antarctica.

Captain Jinks, Hero, from the 1902 book of the same name by Ernest Howard Crosby | Ernest Crosby, illustrated by Beard

Barrie plays: as Ernest in The Admirable Crichton in 1902, and the dual role of George Darling and Captain Hook ( instead of Seymour Hicks, who had turned down the part ) in Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, on 27 December 1904.

The club finished last or equal last in 1900, 1902, 1903, 1904 and 1905, failing to win a single game in the first of those seasons ; however in 1901, with the temporary acquisition of Captain Greig from India and the qualification of Charlie Llewellyn, Hampshire won as many games as it lost.

A graduate of Sandhurst and lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers, he incurred the wrath of his father when on November 18, 1902, he married Annabelle Angus ( the daughter of an innkeeper in Banffshire and the divorced wife of a brother officer, one Captain Alexander ) and was cut off.