Key Events 1750-1910

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  • American Declaration of Independence

    American Declaration of Independence

  • Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom

    Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom

  • French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and the French Revolution

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

  • Tom Paine's "The Rights of Man" is published

    Tom Paine's "The Rights of Man" is published

  • First steam locomotive is oprating at Pennydarren, Wales

    First steam locomotive is oprating at Pennydarren, Wales

  • Abolition of slavery in the British Empire

    Abolition of slavery in the British Empire

  • Meiji, Restoration in Japan; feudalism is abandoned and cspitalism embraced.

    Meiji, Restoration in Japan; feudalism is abandoned and cspitalism embraced.
    ('enlightened rule')

  • German Unifciation after the Franco-Prussian War leading to Germany's rise as an imperial power.

    German Unifciation after the Franco-Prussian War leading to Germany's rise as an imperial power.

  • Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless (radio)

    Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless (radio)

  • Russo-Japnese War; Japan defeats Russia

    Russo-Japnese War; Japan defeats Russia