The first of Edward Elgar's five Pomp and Circumstance marches has a trio section that becomes "Land of Hope and Glory"

The Leyborne-Pophams start selling off the market gardens and then the farm buildings of East Sheen and West Hall for housing and cemeteries and sewage works

Frederick Delius completes his opera A Village Romeo and Juliet, but it is not performed until 1907 in Berlin

Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs the interior of Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea Rooms in Glasgow

Guglielmo Marconi transmits a radio message in Morse code 2100 miles, from Poldhu in Cornwall to St John's in Newfoundland

Robert Falcon Scott sets off in the Discovery on his first expedition to the Antarctic

Frank Hornby begins to market in Britain his immensely successful Meccano kits

After opposition to the development, the Marble Hill estate is bought for £70,000 by funds from local authorities and individuals. The property is held by the London County Council, subsequently the Greater London Council.

Ebenezer Howard republishes his earlier book of 1898 as Garden Cities of Tomorrow

Rudyard Kipling publishes his Just So Stories for Little Children

The road outside Garrick's Villa is widened for the coming of the trams and the house is bought by London United Tramways. General Manager Clifton Robinson occupies the villa

The Metropolis Water Act of 1902 places the original water companies and Hampton Waterworks in the hands of the Metropolitan Water Board (established 1903)

A.E. Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside independently see the link between the atmosphere and the behaviour of radio waves

The play Cathleen ni Houlihan, by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, fosters Irish nationalism

Jane Burt finally wins admission to Houblon's Almshouses, on the nineteenth attempt

Irish politician Arthur Griffith launches Sinn Fein, as an organization campaigning for a strong and independent Ireland

'Land of Hope and Glory' features in its lasting form as the finale of Elgar's Coronation Ode for Edward VII

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is published commercially, a year after being first printed by Beatrix Potter at her own expense

Augustus John meets his favourite subject Dorothy McNeill, to whom he gives the Gypsy name Dorelia

John Masefield's poem 'Sea Fever' is published in Salt-Water Ballads

Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles begins publication in serial form

W.B. Yeats heads a group of writers and directors in establishing the Irish National Theatre Society

Henry James publishes the first of his three last novels, The Wings of the Dove

Radnor House is bought by Twickenham Urban district Council.

Joseph Conrad publishes a collection of stories including Heart of Darkness, a sinister tale based partly on his own journey up the Congo