key events 1750-1910

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  • AMERICAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

    AMERICAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

  • EDMUND CARTWRIGHT PARENTS A POWER LOOM

  • FRENCH REVOLUTION

    FRENCH DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND CITIZEN (WHICH SAYS NOTHING ABOUT SLAVES OR WOMAN)

  • TOM PAINE'S TH RIGHTS OF MAN IS PUBLISHED

  • FIRST STEAM LOCOMOTIVE IS OPERATING AT PENNYDARREN, WALES

    FIRST STEAM LOCOMOTIVE IS OPERATING AT PENNYDARREN, WALES

  • ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE

  • MEIJI ('ENLIGHTENED RULE)

    RESTORATION IN JAPAN; FEUDALISM IS ABANDONED AND CAPITALISM EMBRACED

  • GERMAN UNIFICATION

    GERMAN UNIFICATION AFTER THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR LEADING TO GERMANY'S RISE AS AN IMPERIAL POWER

  • GUGLIELMO MARCONI INVENTS THE WIRELESS (RADIO)

  • RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR; JAPAN DEFEATS RUSSIA