Modern world timeline

By 161168

  • 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

  • French Decloration of the rights of man and citizen

  • Tom Paine's "The Rights Of Man" is published

  • First steam locomotive is operating at Pennydarren, Wales

  • Meiji (‘enlightened rule’) 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

  • Brooklyn Bridge, New York is opened

  • Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless (radio)

  • Russo-Japanese War; Japan defeats Russia

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