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American Declaration of Independance
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Edward Cartwright patents a power loom
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French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen French Revolution
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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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Chartism, a working-class movement for male voting and other rights
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Meiji 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