Key Events 1750-1910 By 149119 Jul 4, 1776 American Declaration of Independence Jan 1, 1785 Edmund Cartwright patients a power loom Jan 1, 1789 French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (which says nothing about slaves or women). --- French Revolution Jan 1, 1791 Tom Paine's The Rights Of Man is Published Jan 1, 1804 First steam locomotive is opperating in Pennydarren, Wales Aug 29, 1833 Abolition of slavery in the British Empire Jan 1, 1868 Meiji restoration in Japan; feudalism is abandoned and captism is embraced Jan 1, 1871 German unification after the Franco-Prussian warleading to Germany's rise to imperial power Jan 1, 1899 Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless (radio) Jan 1, 1905 Russo-Japanese war; Japan defeats Russia