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American Declaration of indepandence
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Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom
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French Declaration of the rights of man and citizens - French Revoulation
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Tom Paines The right 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
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German unifcation after the Franco-Prussian War leading to Germany’s rise as an imperial power
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Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless (radio)
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Russo-Japanese War; Japan defeats Russia