KEY EVENTS 1750-1910

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  • American Declaration of Independence

  • Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom

  • French Revolution

    French Decloration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (which says nothing about slaves or women)

  • Tom Paine’s The Rights of Man is published

  • 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

    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