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American War of Independance
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American Decloration of Independance
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Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom
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The French declaration of the rights of man and citizen (which says nothing about slaves of women- The French Revolution
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Tom Plaine's The rights of man is published
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First Steam Locomotive is operating in Penneydarren, Wales
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Luddite riots destroy machines in factories
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George Stephenson begins a rail service from London to Liverpool
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Chartism, a working-class movement for male voting and other rights
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Abolition of salavery in the British empire
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Great Western is launched in Britain, the first steamship was built for ocean voyages
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Meji Restoration in japan; feudelism is abandoned and capitolism is embraced
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The german unification after the Franco-Prussion War leading to Germany's rise as and imperial power
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Brooklyn Bridge, New York, is opened
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USA wins Spanish-American War and takes control of Guam, the Phillipines, Puerto Rico and (for a time) Cuba
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Guglielmo Marconi invents wireless radio
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First Zeppelin airship is built
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Russo- Japanese War; Japan defeats Russia