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American Declaration of Independence
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Edmind Catrwright patents a power loom
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French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (which says nothing about slaves or women)
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French Revolution
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Tom Paines "The Rights of Man" is published
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First steam locomotive is operating at Pennydarren Wales
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Abolition of slavery in the British Empire
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Meiji (enlightened rule) Restoration is Japan; feudalism is abandoned and capitalism embraced
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German unifiction after the Franco-Prussian War leading to Germany's rise as an imperial power
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Guglie Marconi invents the wireless (radio)
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Russo-Japanese War; Japan defeats Russia