Key event 1750-1910

By Chandles99
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    Industrial Revolution 1850-1910

  • 1776

    American Declaration of Independence

  • 1785

    Edmund Cartwright patents apower loom

  • 1789

    French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (which says nothing about slaves or woman) - French Revolution

  • 1791

    Tom Paine’sThe Rights of Manis published

  • 1804

    First steam locomotive is operating at Pennydarren, Wales

  • 1833

    Abolition of slavery in the British Empire

  • 1868

    Meiji (‘enlightened rule’) Restoration in Japan; feudalism is abandoned and capitalism embraced

  • 1871

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

  • 1899

    Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless (radio)

  • 1905

    Russo-Japanese War; Japan defeats Russia