Timeline January 1902

Events in January 1902 3

• 1902 A daughter named Lieserl Born in Novi Sad, and then unaccounted for Mileva gave birth to a daughter in Serbia in January 1902, before the couple married. The child is mentioned in letters until September 1903 and then never again. Whether she died of scarlet fever or was given up for adoption has never been established.
• 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance Signed Britain and Japan form a mutual defense pact The United Kingdom and the Empire of Japan signed a military alliance in London on January 30, primarily aimed at countering Russian expansion in East Asia. It marked the first alliance between a European power and a non-European nation on equal terms and helped enable Japan's later war with Russia.
• 1902 – 1986 Alva Myrdal (1902-1986) Died 1 February 1986, aged 84 Swedish sociologist and diplomat who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982 for her work on nuclear disarmament negotiations. She served as a government minister and ambassador, and was a leading voice in international arms-control diplomacy. She died in Stockholm.