Key Events 1750-1910

By John Jongebloed

  • American declaration of independance

  • Edumund Cartwright patents a power room

  • French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen - French Revolution

  • Tom Paine's The Right of Man is published

  • First steam locomotive is opperating at Pennydarren, Wales

  • Abolition of slavery in the British Empire

  • Meiji restoration in Japan

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

  • Guglielmo Marconi invents wireless (radio)

  • Russo-Japanese war, Japan defeats Russia

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