Key Events 1750 - 1910 By 186430 Feb 10, 1776 American Declaration of Independence Feb 10, 1785 Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom Feb 10, 1789 French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. French Revolution Feb 10, 1791 Tom Paine's The rights of mean Published. Feb 10, 1804 First steam Locomotive is operating at Pennydarren, Wales Feb 10, 1833 Aboltion of slavery in the British Empire Feb 10, 1868 Meiji Restoration in Japan, Feudalism is Abandond and capitalism embraced Feb 10, 1871 German unification after the Franco-Prussian war leading to Germany's rise as an Imperial Power Feb 10, 1899 Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless (radio) Feb 10, 1905 Russo- Japanese war, Japan Defeats Russia
