Key events 1750- 1910 By ashleyissanchon Feb 11, 1776 American declaration of independence Feb 11, 1785 Edmund Cartwright pantents a power loom Feb 11, 1789 French declaration of rights of man and citizen Feb 11, 1791 Tom Paines the right of man was published Feb 11, 1804 first steam locomotive is opporating at Pennydarren, Wales Feb 11, 1833 Charactism, a working class movement for male and other voting rights Feb 11, 1833 abolitation of slavery in the brittish empire Feb 11, 1868 Mejii restoration in japan; fedulism is abandoed and capitialism embraced Feb 11, 1871 German unification after the frano- purcassion war leading to germanys rise as an inperial power Feb 11, 1899 Gulielmo invents the wireless (radio) Feb 11, 1905 russo- japan war; japan beats russia