1750 - 1910

By 186630
  • American Declaration of Independence

    American Declaration of Independence

  • Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom

    Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom

  • French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

    French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

    (which says nothing about slaves or women)
  • Tom Paine’s The Rights of Man is published

    Tom Paine’s The Rights of Man is published

  • First steam locomotive is operating at Pennydarren, Wales

    First steam locomotive is operating at Pennydarren, Wales

  • Luddite riots destroy machines in factories

    Luddite riots destroy machines in factories

  • George Stephenson begins a rail service from London to Liverpool

    George Stephenson begins a rail service from London to Liverpool

  • Chartism, a working-class movement for male voting and other rights

  • Abolition of slavery in the British Empire

    Abolition of slavery in the British Empire

  • Great Western is launched in Britain,

    Great Western is launched in Britain,

    the frst steamship built for ocean voyages

  • Meiji (‘enlightened rule’) Restoration in Japan; feudalism is abandoned and capitalism embraced

  • German unifcation after the Franco-Prussian War leading to Germany’s rise as an imperial power

    German unifcation after the Franco-Prussian War leading to Germany’s rise as an imperial power

  • Brooklyn Bridge, New York, is opened\

    Brooklyn Bridge, New York, is opened\

  • USA wins Spanish–American War and takes control of Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico and (for a time) Cuba

    USA wins Spanish–American War and takes control of Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico and (for a time) Cuba

  • Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless (radio)

    Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless (radio)

  • The frst Zeppelin airship is built

    The frst Zeppelin airship is built

  • Russo-Japanese War; Japan defeats Russia

    Russo-Japanese War; Japan defeats Russia