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American declaration of independance
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Edumund Cartwright patents a power room
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French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen - French Revolution
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Tom Paine's The Right of Man is published
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First steam locomotive is opperating at Pennydarren, Wales
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Abolition of slavery in the British Empire
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Meiji restoration in Japan
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German unification after the Franco-Prussian leading to Germany's rise as an imperial power
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Guglielmo Marconi invents wireless (radio)
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Russo-Japanese war, Japan defeats Russia