KEY EVENTS 1750-1910 By 181182 Feb 10, 1776 AMERICAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENCE Feb 11, 1785 EDMUND CARTWRIGHT PATENTS A POWER LOOM Feb 11, 1789 FRENCH DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND CITIZEN WHICH SAYS NOTHING ABOUT SLAVE OR WOMAN Feb 11, 1791 TOM PAINE'S 'THE RIGHTS OF MAN' IS PUBLISHED Feb 11, 1804 FIRST STREAM LOCOMOTIVE IS OPERATING AT PENNYDARREN, WALES Feb 10, 1833 ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE Feb 8, 1868 MEIJI ('ENLIGHTENED RULE') RESORATION IN JAPAN; FEUDALISM IS ABANDONED AND CAPITALISM EMBRACED Feb 9, 1871 GERMAN UNIFICATION AFTER THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR LEADING TO GERMANY'S RISE AS AN IMPERIAL POWER Feb 9, 1899 GUGIELMO MARCONI INVENTS THE WIRELESS (RADIO) Feb 9, 1905 RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR; JAPAN DEFEATS RUSSIA