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American Declaration of Independence
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Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom
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French Revolution
French Decloration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (which 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 British Empire
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Meiji (‘enlightened rule’)
Restoration in Japan; feudalism is abandoned and capitalism embraced -
German Unification
after the Franco-Prussian War leading to Germany’s rise as an imperial power -
Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless (radio)
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Russo-Japanese War; Japan defeats Russia