King Events 1750 - 1910

By karleighbramley

  • American Declaration of Independance

  • Edward Cartwright patents a power loom

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

  • Tom Paine’s The Rights of Man is published

  • First steam locomotive is operating at Pennydarren, Wales

  • Chartism, a working-class movement for male voting and other rights

  • Meiji Restoration in Japan; feudalism is abandoned and capitalism embraced

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

  • Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless (radio)

  • Russo-Japanese War; Japan defeats Russia