Timeline Thursday 30 January 1902

Events on Thursday 30 January 1902 1

• 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.