Key events 1750-1910

By 178534

  • American Declaration of Independence

  • Edward Cartwright patents a power loom

  • French Declaration of the rights of Man and Ciizen ( which says nothing about women or slaves)

  • Tom Paine's The rights of man is published

  • First steam locomotive is operating at Pennydarren, Wales

  • The abolition of slavery in the British empire

  • Meiji ('Enlightened rule') Restoration in Japan; feudaliam is abandoned and Capitalism embraced

  • German Unification after the Fanco-Prussian war leading to Germany's rise as an imperial power

  • Guiglielmo Marconi invents the (wireless) radio

  • Russo- Japanese war. Japan defeats Russia