Key Events 1776-1905

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  • American Declaration of Independence

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  • Edmind Catrwright patents a power loom

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

  • French Revolution

  • Tom Paines "The Rights of Man" is published

  • First steam locomotive is operating at Pennydarren Wales

  • Abolition of slavery in the British Empire

  • Meiji (enlightened rule) Restoration is Japan; feudalism is abandoned and capitalism embraced

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

  • Guglie Marconi invents the wireless (radio)

  • Russo-Japanese War; Japan defeats Russia