Key Events 1750-1910

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  • American Declaration of Independence

  • Edmund Cartwright patients a power loom

  • French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

    (which says nothing about slaves or women). --- French Revolution

  • Tom Paine's The Rights Of Man is Published

  • First steam locomotive is opperating in Pennydarren, Wales

  • Abolition of slavery in the British Empire

  • Meiji restoration in Japan; feudalism is abandoned and captism is embraced

  • German unification after the Franco-Prussian warleading to Germany's rise to imperial power

  • Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless (radio)

  • Russo-Japanese war; Japan defeats Russia