Modern Era · Africa · Technology
1902
Aswan Low Dam completed
1902
British engineers finished the first major dam across the Nile near Aswan, controlling the river's flood for the first time in Egyptian history. Thousands of years of silt-dependent farming began to change. A far larger dam upstream would come sixty years later under Nasser, drowning Nubian villages and ancient temples.
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Also in 1902 (4 other events on record)
- Boer War ends at Vereeniging · Africa · War
- Mount Pelee incinerates Saint-Pierre · North America · Disaster
- Anglo-Japanese Alliance signed · East Asia · Politics
- First permanent movie theater opens · North America · Culture
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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