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American Decloration Of Independence
The American Decloration Of Independence was a statement adopted by the continental congress on July 4 1776 -
Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom
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French Decloration of the rights of man and citizen
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Tom Paine's "The Rights Of Man" is published
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First steam locomotive is operating at Pennydarren, Wales
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Meiji (‘enlightened rule’) Restoration in Japan; feudalism is abandoned and capitalism embraced
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German unifcation after the Franco-Prussian War leading to Germany’s rise as an imperial power
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Brooklyn Bridge, New York is opened
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Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless (radio)
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Russo-Japanese War; Japan defeats Russia