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American Declaration of Independence
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Edward Cartwright patents a power loom
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French Declaration of the rights of Man and Ciizen ( which says nothing about women or slaves)
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Tom Paine's The rights of man is published
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First steam locomotive is operating at Pennydarren, Wales
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The abolition of slavery in the British empire
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Meiji ('Enlightened rule') Restoration in Japan; feudaliam is abandoned and Capitalism embraced
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German Unification after the Fanco-Prussian war leading to Germany's rise as an imperial power
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Guiglielmo Marconi invents the (wireless) radio
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Russo- Japanese war. Japan defeats Russia