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American Declaration Of Independence
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Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom
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French Decleration of rights and Man and Ctizen
It says nothing about slaves or women -
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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Abolition of slavery in the Brittish Empire
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Meji ('Enlightened rule') restoration in Japan
Feudalism is adandoned and capitalism embraced -
German unification after the Franco-Prussian War leading to Germany'ys rise as an impertial power
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Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless (radio)
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Russo-Japanese War. Japan defeats Russia