Key Events From 1750 - 1910

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  • American War of Independence

  • American Declaration of Independence

  • EdmundCartwright patents apower loom

  • Tom Paine’sThe Rights of Manis published

  • First steam locomotive is operating at Pennydarren, Wales

  • Luddite riots destroy machines in factories

  • George Stephenson begins a rail service from London to Liverpool

  • Great Western is launched in Britain, the first steamship built for ocean voyages

  • 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

  • Brooklyn Bridge, New York,is opened

  • USA wins Spanish–American War and takes control of Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico and (for a time) Cuba

  • The first Zeppelin airship is built

  • Russo-Japanese War; Japan defeats Russia