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Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen
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Invention of photography by Nicéphore Niépce
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First universal exhibition in London
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Creation Mendeleïev's periodic table of elements
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Invention of the telephone by Graham Bell
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Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity
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Beginning of the First World War
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Birth Queen Elizabeth II
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Beginning of the Second World War
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French women’s right to vote