history By 181392 Feb 6, 1776 American Declaration of Independence Feb 6, 1785 Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom Feb 6, 1789 French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (which says nothing about slaves or women)French Revolution Feb 6, 1791 Tom Paine’s The Rights of Man is published Feb 6, 1804 First steam locomotive is operating at Pennydarren, Wales Feb 6, 1830 Chartism, a working-class movement for male voting and other rights Feb 6, 1868 Meiji (‘enlightened rule’) Restoration in Japan; feudalism is abandoned and capitalism embraced Feb 7, 1871 German unification after the franco-prussian war leading to germany's rise as an imperial power Feb 6, 1899 Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless (radio) Feb 6, 1905 Russo-Japanese War; Japan defeats Russia